Reply #7: I'll go against the grain here [View All]

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And just say, who the hell cares? As Pat Tillman's surviving family said, "Dead is dead." You want to fly a flag at half staff? Go ahead. You don't want to? Go ahead. Because you know something? That young life cut off at 18 or 22 or 35 or 57 is still cut off. Over and done with. If it makes you feel better to do something or not do something, then do it, and screw it. Don't worry about what other people say or think or do, they're not you. And by the same token, don't tell other people how they need to react or not react. You're not them, and you're not responsible for their action or non-action.

The bigger issue here is the fact that this murderous, ruinous, wasteful, and illegal war is still going on, and I don't give a flying fig about where your flag is on the flagpole.