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yeah, wearing a flag pin means your patriotic and you love this country, thats why bush, cheney, rumsfield, nixon, carter, mccarthy all wore flag pins and they were great men...
David, this is old news, happened back in 2001. I have mixed feelings about this. As a military mom, I think it sounds outragous on the surface. And I certainly don't think it applies to local affliates who never leave the country. In fact, I know the anchor on WXYZ in Detroit wears his lapel pin on every broadcast.
On the other hand, I worry about my child and I am sure the mothers of those journalists who are embedded worry too. I am all for anything that keeps any American from being kidnapped, tortured, raped, beheaded, just for doing his or her job. It is one thing to display patriotism here, it is quite another to wave it in front of people who consider us infidels, like waving a red flag in front of a raging bull. Every decision is a trade-off, in the big picture this seems minor in order to ensure access in the global community and keep a free press operating. Surely this was not a decision that was lightly made, or meant to be disrespectful.
In my personal opinion, I think the decisions of this administration to 1.) push a business as usual mentality on America, insteading of encouraging its citizens to get behind the effort as they did in WWII, and 2.) to deny the press to broadcast images of coffins being unloaded does far more the disrespect our sons and daughters, and the sacrifice they are making than anything ABC did.
The people who came up with the magnetic ribbons made a mint off of people buying them. That was a great marketing ploy.
Most flag pins come from China.
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