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[TEWSPilot]

This is exactly how I received this email from Wey Symmes. You have to see the ending to receive the full impact.

If you don't watch another campaign ad this season, watch this one.
Wey


Hi, My son Joe just did a commercial for John McCain. Joe returned from Iraq last year. Please pass this on.

Thanks
Bob Cook

Dear Mr. Obama.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

[Al_Hawaii]

Joe,

Thank you. Thank you for your service and sacrifice, and thank you for this commercial.
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Aloha,
Al

Viet Nam 71/72
Persian Gulf 90/91

[LewWaters]

Out Standing!

A very well spoken young man.

Very moving when he turns and walks away from the camera.
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Clark County Conservative

[TEWSPilot]

Just to contrast patriotism between guys like Joe and the ones who support Obama, read this story:

McCain Camp ‘Rescues’ Flags From Obama Rally
by FOXNews.com
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Democrats are not caring for their Stars and Stripes. At least that’s the message out of John McCain’s campaign.

McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday.

The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were not going to be discarded — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry out a “cheap political stunt.”

McCain supporters said the flags were discovered by a vendor at Denver’s Invesco Field after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention. The vendor supposedly found trash bags full of flags in and near garbage bins, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.

Boy Scouts were sorting through 84 bags of flags in Colorado on Saturday, before a McCain supporter had veterans distribute them to the audience.

“We want to find good homes for these flags,” radio host Dan Caplis said at the rally, adding that whatever flags remained would be placed at memorials throughout Colorado.

Audience members, who booed when Caplis announced that the flags were left in Denver, waved the flags and chanted “U.S.A” before McCain arrived at the rally with his running mate, Sarah Palin.

Damon Jones, spokesman for the Democratic National Convention Committee, released a statement saying McCain should applaud the fact that thousands of American flags were “proudly waved” at their convention.

“But instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play out a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism,” he said.

Obama has faced attacks on his patriotism since the beginning of the Democratic primary race and has set up a Web site specifically designed to fight such charges.

The McCain campaign has denied questioning Obama’s patriotism, and even released a statement Friday calling Obama’s most recent comments on the matter “hysterical.”

Obama said Friday that Republicans are trying to make the election a personality contest, and that “what they’re really saying is ‘we’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, ‘Maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’”

U.S. Code says the proper method for disposing of an American flag is actually burning, provided it is “no longer a fitting emblem for display.”

The United States Flag Store, which sells full-sized and miniature flags, says on its Web site that flags can also be put in the trash, when they are “worn, damaged or tattered beyond repair.”


As Senator Byrd would say, "WRONG!"

US Flag Code. TITLE 4 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 8(k). states:

"The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning"

NEVER is throwing the American flag into the trash authorized, and the patriotism of anyone who might consider doing so without any pangs of guilt should be called into question ... or at least the person's ignorance of simple flag courtesy.

You can find a good copy of the entire US Flag Code at the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/4/ch1.html

USA Flag Site provides the high points of American Flag etiquette in a more user friendly format on their Flag Etiquette page.
http://www.usa-flag-site.org/etiquette.shtml

[rhv5862]

Joe, thank you for your service. It is because of young men like Joe that we have the freedoms we enjoy tody. God Bless.
It is a great ad.

rhv5862

[zinfella]

God bless that young man! Great ad!
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No whiners!

[Deuce]

TEWSPilot,

Saw both, Great finds, hope to see more of same!