Anyone see the frontpage today?

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Warm up the hate mail bag.

If dittoheads and other misguided freepers liked us before, they will love us now. BTW This is attached to this article.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/12/11_flags.html

Of Bonfires, Flags, and America the Beautiful
December 11, 2003
By Max Black

The bonfire was burning when we arrived. I was ferrying a carload of giggling teenaged ROTC cadets to their first flag retirement ceremony, held at the local American Legion outpost. The kids, my son and two of his friends, were resplendent in their newly pressed uniforms. We cracked jokes and laughed with each other as we drove into the Legion parking lot.

It was a crisp, clear November night. We live in a coastal community, and the Legion is located on an island separated from the mainland by the Intracoastal Waterway, so the air carries a faint salt tang. We parked in the sandy lot beside a row of cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The cadets piled out of the car to join their fellows. Nothing much was happening yet; we were early. Night was falling fast, and the temperature was dropping. I stood beside a bearded vet in denim overalls, leaning on a cane. We silently contemplated the scene before us.

The Legion outpost is small and relatively shabby; a small concrete blockhouse and a smaller wooden outbuilding on a tiny plot of ground behind a grocery store, on the edge of a quiet neighborhood. The sky was clear. A light ocean breeze barely disturbed the smoke rising from the bonfire. Inside the building, a number of aging Legion members listened to one of their members speak from a podium; behind them, a football game played out silently from a television mounted over the tiny bar. The shuffleboard table was covered with a plastic sheet. Outside perhaps two dozen cadets milled about, waiting for the ceremonies to start. A knot of parents and community observers stood quietly talking among themselves. A long, folding table bore several hundred carefully folded flags, awaiting retirement.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/12/11_flags.html

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1. wow....great letter...I felt like I was there....this paragragh

got my attention big time...



Be warned, George Bush. Take heed, Rumsfeld and Rice and Cheney and Perle and all of your cronies in the halls of power. The real Americans, all 284 million of us, are your enemies, as you are the enemies of America. We are coming for you. We will pull you out of your gilded holes and expose you for the traitors and criminals you are. We will reverse your schemes of power and domination, and restore this country to its place as the world's leader of democracy and freedom. And our flag will wave proudly over the ashes of your ambitions