You guys are making me feel guilty for not putting up a flag all year. I'm a patriotic person, but I'm also kind of lazy when it comes to that sort of stuff. I struggle to get my Christmas tree up before Christmas and then leave it up until the end of January.
Dito Dito - correct!Yes. We put flags up on the front porch, back porch, mailbox, garage, and we have a large flagpole in the front yard as well to fly one higher. We fly them all year long because despite our country’s many failings we still live in the greatest country on earth. On Memorial Day we add small flags in the yard. We hang a state flag and a Christian flag on our yard flagpole as well, underneath the US flag
My stepdad is from the Netherlands but has been a US citizen for 15+ years. He still finds it weird to hang up a flag but he doesn't care when others do it.I've always found it strange to hang a flag but I know it it just me
You are correct to be offended by that, there is no need to show anything. I like my things but don't look around my corner of the world and think anything at all of those who don't do as I do. In fact, I'm quite certain that many who serve are probably very quiet about it at home for safety reasons & rightly so.There's a fine line between patriotism and nationalism. Everyone's standards and/or comfort level are different. I get offended when someone accuses me of not loving my country (and is often followed by a directive to leave the US) because I don't have the same standard of outwardly displaying it as they do. Yet I serve my community through my occupation and often the people making comments to me do not.
Patriotism..some people love this country… I know that’s shocking to some people, but even the haters won’t leave.
I fly the flag to honor those that have served this country. Whether or not they served or died for a good reason is irrelevant. How I feel about anything is also irrelevant. It’s as simple as that.There's a fine line between patriotism and nationalism, and I suspect I'm not alone among those who don't fly the flag in feeling that line is crossed with increasing (and deliberate) frequency over recent years. There's also a lot of ground between love and hate, no matter how much the "patriots" in discussions like this one want to pretend there isn't.
And the whole "just leave" thing is the most ridiculous red herring. Many things tie people to a place that have nothing to so with their feelings about the governance or culture of that place - I live in a state I don't particularly like because our family ties are here and we believe those ties involve some two-way responsibilities that we are unwilling/unable to just abandon - and immigration in the modern world is an extremely expensive, time consuming and uncertain process involving barriers erected to keep people of ordinary means from being able to easily relocate. That is just as true of leaving the US as it is about getting into it.
It's amazing how much the name says without even trying.