Independent UK: Buying the American flag... and not for burning

[marmar]

Buying the American flag... and not for burning
By Johann Hari

If you want a sense of how the election of Barack Obama is being seen across the world in this post-coital period, one little anecdote for me says it all. I spent yesterday trawling the shops in here in London for Stars and Stripes to decorate my apartment for my Presidential election party - and across the city they were all sold out. One shopkeeper in the East End told me: "For the past eight years we've done a big trade in American flags because people buy them to burn them. This is the first time I can remember people buying them because they actually want to wave them."


http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/11/buying-the-amer.html

[The Wielding Truth]

1. That's America to me! Love and respect and equality and Peace!

[Historic NY]

2. Sure will be nice to go back to Europe and be greeted favorably..

as an American.

[myrna minx]

3. Ok, I thought I was done crying for the week.

I guess I'm not. :cry:

[RJ Connors]

4. Man that could mean a hugh drop in flag sales. n/t

[ChazII]

6. Naw.... the dark side

can start burning.

[peacetalksforall]

5. The beautiful stories just keep flowing in. How could these all be put together into a DU .

archive?

I watched the people on the screen during the election results and I was mesmerized by two things, their faces, hugs, tears - AND - the flags. I want some for myself top pass around.

[dana_b]

7. seriously - this is the best news

to me since election night. I hope we don't disappoint.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Now I can go to sleep with a smile :)

Thank you marmar, this is a wonderful story.

:hi: :hug: :loveya: :pals: