Ask someone who has served during war and lost buddies, or families who have lost love ones due to war. I have no problem with people burning the flag, but would choose not to out of respect for those who have given their lives for my freedom to choose wether or not to do so.
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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