tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post6116618150181466382..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": Displaying Old Glory on the FourthLester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-87462840495013551612022-08-29T16:34:11.647-05:002022-08-29T16:34:11.647-05:00Thank you foor being youThank you foor being youSurprise Carpet Installationhttps://www.carpet-installers.com/us/carpet-repair-arizona/surprise-carpet-installation.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-34430724885973297732010-07-12T21:12:53.589-05:002010-07-12T21:12:53.589-05:00To us rest-of-the-world-ers, American flag etiquet...To us rest-of-the-world-ers, American flag etiquette is downright messed-up and crazy, and your comment "It's as if it were a mystic symbol sacred to the religion of state-worship" is spot-on. Why, here in Canada, we <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipping" rel="nofollow">dip the colours</a>, even till the flag touches the ground, on Remembrance Day, as a sign of respect for the fallen. And nobody here feels an absolute need to stand and salute a Canadian flag whenever they see one; in fact, only soldiers might do so, while on duty, as ceremony requires.<br /><br />And the "Pledge of Allegiance" to "the flag", is absolutely an act of secular communal worship.<br /><br />But, it makes sense, in that it goes with every other American radical discontinuity / break with tradition, from the republican form of government, to the whole "proposition nation" rather than an ethnic / religious nation-state, to inventing a new orthography for American English ("color" rather than "colour", "center" rather than "centre", etc.), etc. Why shouldn't America invent its own flag etiquette, rather than be bound by centuries-old, Old World vexillological protocols?Will S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02714519301979594160noreply@blogger.com