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an oldie but goodie & pete seeger, great patriot

www.snopes.com , the urban legend buster, describes this as containing "degrees of truthfulness" and also, of course, subjectivity. Listed also are two other sites (one called "Crossbearer," which certainly suggests a subjective perspective) that it says one can go to to...

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Bill Thomas fails to salute

At last night's Lincoln Day Dinner, the annual Republican love-fest at the Doubletree, former Congressman Bill Thomas forgot to put his hand over his heart when the national anthem was being sung. Big whoop, you say? I didn't blink when I first looked at the photo. But then I read Andy Kehe's...

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I'm Wearing Two Flag Pins

The recent flap over Obama's decision to stop wearing an American Flag lapel pin has got me thinking: If the true measure of a person's patriotism is not their concern for their country or their willingness to sacrifice for their country but is instead measured by adornment and jewelry,...

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FADED GLORY: What Land is This? Have we become jaded? Have our colors faded?

As America heads to the polls, many are fueled by anger and disillusion. Many who were once proud of the Red, White and Blue now hang their head in shame and/or clench their fists in anger? Will our level of patriotism ever rise to the level immediately following 9/11? It is...

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Soldier remembered: "People still have a voice"

After Pat's Birthday By Kevin Tillman Posted on Oct 19, 2006 Editor's note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005,...

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Missing!!!

Missing

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Red, White and Blue: How patriotic are you, five years after 9/11?

On 9/11, a collosal ground swell of patriotism emerged from ground zero. For most of us, our sense of patriotism has diminished to some degree, only because of the passage of time has made the events of that horrific day seem decidedly more distant from our individual and collective psyches. In...

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