08-30-2016, 05:00 AM
(08-30-2016, 12:07 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The US flag is usually just a piece of cloth. I would not risk my life or serious injury to rescue a flag in peril of fire or of sinking with a ship. I consider a cat more precious. Indeed I would remove an irreplaceable work of art from peril of a fire before I removed a US flag.
I have a similar attitude myself, but there are any number of folk who will associate the symbol for the thing it stands for. For sake of ego and status, the symbol represents the thing it stands for. Both the protestor and the people upset by the protest are buying into the importance of symbols.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.