And where are their lapel pins? And while we’re at it, where are their lapels??
ETA: SpoilerVirgin, spoiler indeed. Lapel pins have halready been mentioned in this thread. Argh.
I can only wish that my life were so perfect and I had so much leisure time that I could give a flying fuck in a rolling donut hole about how someone does or does not behave during the national anthem. So many people think that freedom means others being free to do as they expect them to.
LOFuckingL.:mad:
And this just five and a half years after taking that bullet.
You put your hand over your heart during the anthem not salute the flag , that was never done .
Exactly.
I take my hat off and put my hands behind my back. “Hand over heart” always struck me as too ritualistic for my tastes.
And I don’t take my hat off for GD God Bless America.
What part of free country does the OP not understand?
I always put on at least three lapels pins during the anthem so I’ll be better than someone with just one or two. And I wave a flag with each hand. Then I say the pledge afterwards and tell anyone who doesn’t join me to go back where they came from. It’s the patriotic thing to do. But fuck 'em all if they want me to pay taxes.
That’s terrifying.
See, I do the same, but then I start screaming “AMERICA! AMERICA! AMERICA!!!” into everybody’s faces, then I jiz into my star spangled boxer shorts, just so it’s clear where my loyalties lie.
It’s important to set an example for the children of this country.
You don’t scream, “AMERICA! FUCK, YEAH!”? 
I would, but I try to keep it tasteful.
The weird thing to me is that this seems to me to be a case where the whole idea of freedom of speech/expression actually applies : the right to freely express oneself without subjecting oneself to government retaliation, as opposed to the usual talking points of “boss fired me because I said something stupid that made his company look bad” or “Target/other private entity won’t sell my shit or dropped my endorsement because I said something idiotic” or “Why won’t the New York Times print my harebrained garbage,” etc…
Because unfortunately, unlike most Americans, you understand the 1st Amendment.
And it’s really more of a “hand over middle of left lung” thing. The heart is more centrally located than that.
You’re supposed to put your flag pin and hand over your heart now, in case you become a target of a terrorist for loving America so damn much.
We’ll re-issue the memo.
If you don’t salute, you literally founded ISIS.
Another famous case was Dave Wottle, who forgot to take off his cap during the ceremony:
Bizarrely, he lived down the hall from me one quarter in college.
noooo! Not that!!!
Wot a turkey.
Wow…thats it, just Wow.