[UPDATED - the flag has been re-allowed, scroll to bottom for details]
On Memorial Day and Memorial Day weekend, Americans honor their fallen soldiers, those whose lives were lost in wars that won, sustained, and protected the freedoms Americans enjoy. Many other nations and peoples owe their freedoms to blood spilled by American soldiers as well, but in general we ask nothing of foreign nations in the way of thanks. We didn’t do it for their gratitude - only for their freedom.
But in America - on our own soil - if you have no gratitude for the fallen dead, and if you have no special fondness for the families of military people, then the minimum asked of you on a weekend like this is to just STHU. Go bar-b-que something, hang with the family, do whatever, but in general get out of the way of people who want to honor our fallen warriors. Especially in Texas, where love of country is actually cool.
But…………..apparently not in Mansfield, TX, a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Carol Cavazos of local CBS Channel 11 reports this: In short, a woman, who is in a military family, who hung a 3×5 American flag in her cube in preparation for Memorial Day weekend, came to work Friday to find that a co-worker had taken the flag down and left it on the floor, and had complained to their boss, saying she “found the flag offensive”.
Yeah. The “offended person” was also not born on US soil.
