City - Roseville State - CA Country - United States
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I know, I know, it's the 4th of July, and everyone else will have a photo of a flag or something patriotic, but I had this one I took a month ago, and I figured why not wait until it's more appropriate?
The idea behind this image is that The United States has been around for quite some time now, and the things that started it are now very old and in the midst of our busy lives, we seldom realize the age of our country. But what's important is that the principals of life, liberty and freedom still stand strong. We paid a high price for it, and we too often forget it.
No, Andre, thank you very much for that. I really appreciate your point of view, especially as a Canadian. I grew up along side non-americans, but even now it's easy to not think about what you guys think about us. And that is very interesting to me. And it's not a rant, it's merely telling the truth about what you feel. To be honest, I don't see much of that on the internet.
thank you for voicing your view. It means a lot to me.
Kevin, I missed this photo when you first posted it, and probably wouldn't have commented at the time anyway.
But now I would like to comment on your about. Especially the part about too often forgeting the price paid.
First of all I am Canadian and I don't feel that it is my place to comment on how Americans behave in their own country.
Any way I have always been treated with respect and kindness when I travel to the US. My oldest son is in University in Boston and has nothing but good things to say about the way he has been accepted there. This past September after dropping off my son at school, I decided to stop off at Lime Rock Park Conn. to a race track there where there was a vintage car festival. There were a few thousand fans there all sitting around the hillsides before activities started. I was walking around looking for photo ops. Then, over the loudspeakers, a sober voice came over asking people to stand for the Star Spangled Banner. about half the people stood up right away and took their hats off. I stopped walking and did the same. Then before the anthem the voice asked people to remember the brave men and women in the Armed Forces, overseas and helping the flood victims in New Orleans (just a couple of days after the hurricane) By this time most of the people were now on their feet with hats off. The loudspeaker was just a couple of lines into the anthem and I've got to tell you even I had tears in my eyes. Yet throughout the anthem a small minority of people chose to either sit down or walk around and chat. I couldn't believe these people! What must one of the families with a son or daughter in Iraq think of insensitive people like that. You are right Kevin, some people too often forget! Some people don't appreciate how lucky they are. Sorry for the rant Andre
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{K:80636} 7/8/2005