What's with the Yellow Ribbon "Support Our Troops" stickers?

[Blue-Jay]

Seems like everybody in my area has one or two of them on their cars. Are they giving them away at Wal-Mart or something?

Note to lurking buttheads: My question has nothing to do with my wish that every soldier comes home intact. (and as soon as possible)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Around here...

The American Legion Post in the next township is selling them, as well as star-spangled magnetic ribbons.

[jn2375]

15. Buy one and put it with your Kerry sticker

[jn2375]

2. Just a support our troops ribbon

I have one right below my Kerry sticker and my sticker that says PROUD PARENT OF A US MARINE. Keeps people thinking about the Iraq war which I believe helps Kerry.

[Cha]

6. Right on! I think so too!

the repugs don't own the Flag Or our Troops, Or God, for that matter.

[Blue-Jay]

9. That wasn't my point.

I was wondering where everyone was getting them.

[Philostopher]

3. I don't know, but I'm starting to see similar ones at Meijer.

I'd almost bet they were selling them at WalMart -- that would make sense, considering the variety of people I see with them (some of them with Kerry-Edwards bumperstickers).

I wondered if the original magnetic ones weren't sold for a charity that was donating a percentage to veterans or something. Not sure, but I've seen a lot of them -- now, I'm starting to see the pink 'breast cancer awareness' ribbons, too.

[clydefrand]

4. They are on many cars around here too.

There are also red, white and blue ones. I bought mine at the grocery store the other day...impulse buy at the check-out. But I wanted to put it on my car that is plastered with Kerry, DNC bumper stickers and smaller ones on the back windows for him, and Veterans for Kerry! I want repugs to know that WE DEMS also support our troops. I saw a good one earlier in the summer--yellow one...that said "Support Our Troops; Dump Bush" Wish I had one of those!

[Cha]

5. A lot of people in my small town have

them so I ordered one(googled it ..$4.00 & free shipping) and put it right above my Kerry/Edwards/A Stronger America..

We want the troops home safely, not in a box.

They threw in a ..red, white, and blue, "Freedom Isn't Free" magnetic sticker..and I put that one up there, too..like my friend says..No, "It's Hard Work!"}(

[Rick Myers]

7. At the Air force Museum yesterday they were selling for $7!!!

At the local Flea Market they're $1 and $2... Buy one, Fellow Consumer. When you display a magnet, there's no need for REAL patriotism...

[sbj405]

8. Have you noticed that they are so big, you need an SUV to display?

I've seen some on regular cars and they are placed sideways.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Maybe people who make SUV's make magnetic signs?? n/t

[Stew225]

12. I'm amazed at how many I've seen here in

Ohio. I asked a girl at a gas station where to get them and she told me Meijer's, a regional store here in the Ohio, Michigan, Indiana (buckeye biased order of listing here) area.

I was thinking the same thing as someone else mentioned: it shows that Kerry supporters also support the troops, too. Of course, it's my opinion that the very best way to support the troops is to bring them home.

[Blue-Jay]

13. Yeah. Some of them are HUGE!

[Sal316]

11. Here too.

Our department secretary is the 'sales point' for these things.

Heh...

[DU9598]

14. Iowa Air Guard

They sold them for $5 as a fundraiser and I got one for my car - right next to the Kerry Edwards sticker.

[Fenris]

16. For some reason, everyone I see has them tilted.

And they have like 2 or 3 of them on the back of their giant trucks and SUVs. Does that mean something? Or is it just cause it looks kick-ass? Fucking Texans.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. Some smartie's raking in the dough, that's what!

At $3.99 a pop in my local convenience store, I'd say someone's getting mighty rich off of people's "patriotism"

[nickgutierrez]

18. I see them at Walgreens all the time

In a neighborhood with Kerry/Edwards signs everywhere. :shrug: