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Starpass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 06:40 PM
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To All Those Flag Waving, But Non-Thinking Patriots
....just want to point one thing as you wave the flag and tie all those yellow ribbons all over everything that doesn't move fast enough to get out of your way: They also tie "yellow ribbions" around crime scenes. Think about it.
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lcordero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 06:44 PM
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1. That's amusing and scary at the same time
EOM
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 06:47 PM
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2. wasn't the "tie a yellow ribbon.." song about a guy in prison?
how the hell did that get co-opted into a military thing? :shrug:
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lkinsale Donating Member (662 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 06:48 PM
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3. From the song "Tie a yellow ribbon"
Edited on Mon Jul-14-03 06:50 PM by lkinsale
on edit: oops, misunderstood your post.

Yeah, it was about a guy coming home from prison, but it fit so well when waiting for the guys to come back from the Gulf War that everyone forgot that part. ;)
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 06:56 PM
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4. I seem to remember...
It being used to welcome home the hostages in Iran in 1980.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 07:22 PM
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5. Are there really any non-thinking
patriots? I think not: while many descriptive adjectives and nouns might come to mind, patriot is not among them for a patriot, first and foremost, would uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the ideals upon which this nation was founded.
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