Burning a Flag?

[team3six]

Dude thought I respect your point on the flag! (as I figured this would be a touchy thread to some people.) The point that your missing is no matter what you do to the flag, it wont break what the true meaning of being a An American. I too am against the burning of the flag! But the fact is it does get burned by those who disrespect the meaning behind it all. I honestly do not believe that Penn and Teller were disrespecting the flag, but rather during a time when we as a nation are fighting with conflicts that we can or cannot contol over liberties or non liberties. Burning the flag to other countries is done because we show our pride in our flag. They know this and therefore show thier hate by burning it. But you can never take away what we are born and bread to believe in. Its instilled in us as a people that that piece of cloth is a symbol of freedom. It is not what holds us and binds us together!

Now before you go off the deep end at me. I am a Marine. I fought for my country, Not for the flag, not for the fact that two nations couldnt see eye to eye, but because I am an American and it is my right. The flags meaning is and always has been the start of it all, but it is not who we are as a country.

Its a symbol of what we are now. And if you let the destruction of a piece of cloth bother you to the point of anger and hate, then they have already won and beaten you.

As the saying goes, "You cant take our freedom!"
I hope you understand and try and see the meaning behind the message.