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Suburban Chicago Man Retrieves Stars And Stripes That've Been Tossed; He's Grabbed Hundreds
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- To all of those who think the American flag doesn't stand for something good, well, I would point out the last election. Fourty-three times our country has had a peaceful course direction. Sure, we've made mistakes, but here is the beauty of the USA. We screw up; we peacefully change course and then we try to do better. As someone who has studied world history, we have a better track record than the rest of the world. Sorry, but it's a fact. It doesn't mean that we can sit back on our laurels, but we have been trying harder than anyone else to do what's right. I challenge you to get of your duffs and do something other than be a bunch of internet quarterbacks. It's easy to throw stones; it's not so easy to get up and try to make the world a better place. By the way, to paraphrase Madison, the Consitution was written in such a way that our government could be run by devils, because if men were angels there would be no need for a government. So, are you so pure that you can be called an angel?
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- Thats right..Democrats are holier than thou and have never done anything wrong.
Thanks Bozo !
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I don't think he is saying that Democrats are Perfect - but they are definitely more perfect than Republicans! - Reply to this comment
- The flag used to stand for something - Peace, Freedom - now it stands for Oppression, Greed, Hatred, Warmongers.
I still hang the flag Proudly hoping that one day those values will be restored to it by our elected officials. But until the day that Lobbying is outlawed for what it is - Bribery - nothing will change.
Stand Up America - Make Congress change. - Reply to this comment
- The american flag doesn't stand for anything other than lies, murder, torture, theft, greed, conspiracy, and deceit. This country has really hit the $h!tter. Thanks george w bush.
Posted by Kuei1248 at 7:07 PM : Jun 13, 2009
You need to get your mother and father out of the gay bath houses and load up your FORD Escort and get your filthy bodies out of this country. You are filth, and lower that snake feces. - Reply to this comment
- I'd just as soon **** on it as salute it.
Posted by heuristic1 at 10:59 PM : Jun 13, 2009
Why don't you walk up to a Marine and say that to their face? Because you are a no count spineless piece of pig vomit and you were excreted out of your fathers homosexual anus. You are pathetic and a coward sissy who will never speak that filth in front of a true American because you know what would happen to you. You would be treated the same way your mothers father and all of his friends treated your mother while she was growing up in that crack house. - Reply to this comment
- don't you have something else to do besides dig in the garbage?
Posted by haint-talkin at 5:00 PM : Jun 13, 2009
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and you "haint" reading well either...... The article says the man is what is known as a "Trash Collector" also known as "Garbage Men" and in some areas "Sanitation Engineers"..... it's his job to "dig in garbage"......
And it's not only bush supporters who would do this....... - Reply to this comment
- Thank You for rescuing the flags!!!
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- Hu-ah! I get that a lot of Americans don't respect that flag. Heck, I support people's Constitutional right to burn the flag as political protest. However, to throw it out in your garbage... Ugh... totally repugnant. Perhaps it is the 5 years I served in the military, but when I see the flag raised or lowered, I actually stop what I'm doing and stand respectfully. I don't understand what is happening to people today when they don't seem to care. While it's symbol, it's still the symbol of everything we hold dear - our Constitution and our country. So, I have to say I'm really glad this guy is getting an award for seeing that these flags are properly destroyed.
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- What a clown!!!
Like conservatives and republicans are the champions of the flag, while burning and shredding the constitution at ever possible instance!!!
Posted by hungry1968-15 at 4:38 PM : Jun 13, 2009
Thats right..Democrats are holier than thou and have never done anything wrong.
Thanks Bozo ! - Reply to this comment
- The american flag doesn't stand for anything other than lies, murder, torture, theft, greed, conspiracy, and deceit. This country has really hit the $h!tter. Thanks george w bush.
Posted by Kuei1248 at 7:07 PM : Jun 13, 2009
Glad you got your total IQ out there which I see is 1.248 - Reply to this comment
- I would like to invite any and all of you who read this and love our country and expecially love our current troops serving in any number of capacities around the world and if you love our veterans from ALL eras and ALL branches of service to come to our website. We want to connect our veterans up with the community around them to support them and help them to know there are plenty of us who revere and respect them and think they are AWESOME ! And we want them to understand that plenty of us think this way and we want them to recognize this in themselves....
Please join us.... http://www.vetsmeetvets.org We are a non-profit, non-partisan, non-discriminating organization ! You do not have to be currently serving or a veteran of a former time to join our ranks. We want you to meet the veterans in your community and for the veterans in your community to meet you! We want to put people together because there is magic in numbers. The load is a lot easier to carry when more than one person is hefting it on his or her back.
I am a US Navy Veteran, served durning the Vietnam War but never got overseas as they were only sending women who were nurses. I was a corpsman, a medic, so a support to the military medical team, but women were not allowed to go quite as freely as they are now. My mother served in the Army in Paris during WWII, my dad was a career AF officer, serving 22 years from before Korea and through the Vietnam time but I don't believe he served in country either.
My husband is a 23 US Navy Corpsman who served several times with the Marines and on board two different ships, one on the West coast and one off the East coast. He has served in some hostile waters, but did not see actual combat during Vietnam nor the first Gulf War for which he regrets.
My two grandfathers served during WWI and I have a mulititude of aunts, uncles and cousins who have also served....so this is one girl to whom you do not speak ill of nor disrespectfully of our country or the Flag that so gallantly waves for all of us or I will respectfully invite you to leave this great nation of ours.
We have our faults and our limitations, but I would invite you to think about where it might be better to live? And if you think so, why are you still living here?
Sincerely, jmmama - Reply to this comment
- folks that rescue flags are the same folks that supported george bush, jr....
misguided, redneck, xenophobic, war making, old white republican southerners..
don't you have something else to do besides dig in the garbage?
the days of redneck, christian, conservatism are over.
Posted by haint-talkin at 5:00 PM : Jun 13, 2009
I'm not a redneck nor a Christian nor a conservative and I fly my flag proudly.
The only days very soon that are going to be over are that your idiocy will eventually be seen for what it is little man. - Reply to this comment
- haint-talking you sure talk a lot of garbage
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- To Quapawsix : I am a combat veteran who served in Vietnam. As far as I am concerned people who put down the American flag are no better than canine fecal matter. (I am excercising my right to freedom of speech too. ) After all I fought for it.
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- The american flag doesn't stand for anything other than lies, murder, torture, theft, greed, conspiracy, and deceit. This country has really hit the $h!tter. Thanks george w bush.
Posted by Kuei1248 at 7:07 PM : Jun 13, 2009
Well if that's how you really feel pack your trash up and move to iran or saudi arabia!
Folks, if you have a flag that isn't serviceable you really should have it burned. The VFW usually burns flags as a public service one day a year. I think they do it around Flag Day.
Same thing goes for your Bible. If it is falling apart, break the binding and COMPLETELY reduce it to ashes. - Reply to this comment
- The american flag doesn't stand for anything other than lies, murder, torture, theft, greed, conspiracy, and deceit. This country has really hit the $h!tter. Thanks george w bush.
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- folks that rescue flags are the same folks that supported george bush, jr....
misguided, redneck, xenophobic, war making, old white republican southerners..
don't you have something else to do besides dig in the garbage?
the days of redneck, christian, conservatism are over.
Posted by haint-talkin at 5:00 PM : Jun 13, 2009
LOLOL!!! Nope...dream on little confederate buckaroo...we'll still carry your butt all the way thru the welfare line...as usual much to our chagrin - Reply to this comment
- Get the F out of MY Country, Be BLessed your not around me. And You probebly drive over the limt and think the road belongs to you. WRONG AWSS
From Grany. Its My consitition that says I can tell you to *** OFF. - Reply to this comment
- i am shocked by the way dems will throw away a flag with no regard to who made it or the people who serve it. but i guess if you dont care about an unborn fetus than whats a flag right?
Posted by libsmacker44 at 4:34 PM : Jun 13, 2009
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They are made in China, just like everything else.
In 2006, over 5.3 million dollars in American flags were imported by the U.S. from other countries, primarily China. This figure is consistent with other years, except for 2001, when almost $52 million in U.S. flag sales were imported after 9/11. - Reply to this comment
- This is AS I SEE IT, by Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.
What a fine service to our country Mr. Olsen has done, and will continue to do.
I'm glad he's getting national attention for this. It's a good deed during trying times for the U.S.
It's also nice to know where to send my flags when the time comes to have them revived. It's better than just throwing them in the garbage. That's not the American way to treat a flag.
That's AS I SEE IT. I'm Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown. - Reply to this comment
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