Don’t Mess With Americans & Their Flag, Eh
Back on February 28th, the day Canada’s mens team won hockey gold, a couple of Canadians down in La Quinta, California decided it would be fun to celebrate the Canadian win by hiking up a steep mountain, taking down an American flag and replacing it with a Canadian flag.
Local police have tracked down the two suspects and have asked their local district attorney to lay misdemeanour vandalism and flag desecration charges against them. When the owner of the flag’s son when up in early March to swap the two flags, he discovered the American flag had been torn apart and buried under some rocks.
Adding insult to injury, the flag has been flying at this location in honour of those killed in 9/11 which also includes 24 Canadians. The local Walmart donates a new flag every six months to keep the flag in good shape.
Personally, I think those two should be charged. I think it is great the Americans have a charge specifically for desecrating flags, Canada would be wise to adopt one. Should fit right in with Harper’s ‘tough on crime’ campaign. But I digress.
Well Canadians have been more willing to wave the flag in the last several years, we often do so without a lot of thought to what that flag represents. It is not just our country but all those who have gone before it to uphold and preserve our freedoms. The Americans understand that fact and take it very seriously.
Those two guys could have found a lot of other ways to show their pride in their Olympic hockey team than than rubbing salt in a very raw wound. They seem to have forgotten, Canadian soldiers are fighting and dying today in Afghanistan as the result of 9/11.
Seems they need a serious lesson in respect.
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