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SammyBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:30 PM
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Okay. . .what's with all these lapel pins?
Bush, all elected officials, where US Flag lapel pins. Get over yourself, Jeebus.

We know you use the values and freedoms of this country as the punchline to a bad joke. We know you have red arm-bands with an inverted Aztec symbol. We know you hate America and Americans.

Drop the lapel pins already!!!
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:38 PM
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1. Don't you know?
If you wear lapels, arm bands, bracelets and adorn your car and home with tons of ribbons, flags, signs, etc. then you don't actually have to act in a moral manner. :eyes:
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:40 PM
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2. Well the nazis loved to wear runes...
and other symbols, why wouldn't their modern day counterparts?
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:42 PM
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3. They stole it from Detective Mike Logan
Chris Noth was wearing the flag lapel before it was even thought of.
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:45 PM
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4. What I want to know is what is up with the red poppies in the UK?
At least I think that's what they are.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:16 PM
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7. Remembrance day - Nov. 11th
Edited on Wed Nov-09-05 07:17 PM by Canuckistanian
It's traditional to wear a poppy to commemorate the soldiers who died in WWI.

It was started after a Canadian doctor named John McCrae wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields". He later died during that war.

The first line of the poem is "In Flanders fields, the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row."
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:26 PM
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8. How come no one here is wearing them? n/t
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 08:00 PM
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11. It's mostly a Canadian thing
We were all given them in school and our veterans sell them in malls (Canadian Legion, sort of like your VFW).

And all the politicians wear them. There are contests to see which politician is the first to wear one (sort of like the lapel pins).
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 08:37 PM
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13. Because no one here buys the poppies from the vets anymore.
And according to a LTTE that appeared in our student paper after the memorial for the 2000th. solider killed in Iraq, it would look like "The lefties just love to celebrate the deaths of US soldiers".
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:34 PM
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10. And used to be Armistice Day here
my grandfather was a WW1 vet.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 08:02 PM
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12. Yes, Armistice Day.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:00 PM
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5. "W"
A number of young financial and corporate types have been replacing their flag pins with chrome-plated "W"s.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:15 PM
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6. you mean you can still see them? they think the flag makes
them invisible-
or not accountable.

like when my kids used to put their hands over their eyes and think that because they couldn't see me, I couldn't see them-
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:28 PM
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9. Yep
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 08:58 PM
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14. If I ever leave this country for vacation, I plan to wear a Canadian
lapel pin!
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