Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standThe flag needs to never be lowered to "honor" victims of a war declaration. If anything, it should be raised higher. Because lowering it? Yeah, I can see that in honor of something like Sandy Hook, or Columbine, where lone crazy attacks the completely innocent.
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
When it's brought to half-staff in "honor" of the victims of enemy action during time of war...that stinks of surrender.
And that...that can fuck off.
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Interestingly enough, one of my new co-workers was widowed (young and with a little child) a couple of months before 9/11 and said that her first thoughts were kind of anger that that kind of death was worse than any other kind of tragic death. Different kind of perspective.
It wasn't tragic. The victims of 9/11 were victims of evil. It's only tragic for the victims' survivors.
Loss of a spouse is tragic, especially through illness or accident. And she has every right to be angry that her loss was minimized.
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