<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387089" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>American Flag</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i've had mixed feelings<br>about the American flag<br>ever since they lowered it<br>for President Kennedy...<br>it took a beating during<br>the civil rights movement.<br>and then there was Vietnam, <br>all the atrocities, the lies, <br>the wasted deaths...<br>the marches, the protests, <br>the Kent State killings...<br>and the flag was burned<br>in anger, and i understood<br>the anger<br>and now the corporate takeover, <br>the loss of human rights, <br>the loss of dignity, and hope<br>how many deaths does it take? <br>JFK, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King<br>forty thousand plus in Vietnam<br>how many in the lying oil wars<br>in Iraq and Afghanistan? <br>how many homeless and jobless<br>does it take? <br>how many migrant workers treated<br>like animals? <br>how many old people have to lose<br>the benefits they've worked for? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and i think back to my old hero, <br>Thomas Jefferson what would he say? <br>maybe something like this: <br>'the real American flag isnt made of cloth, <br> it's drawn on the backs of the American workers.<br> male and female of all races and religions, <br> the people that built this country<br> the heart blood of this country.<br> when you put these people down<br> with your greed, your lies, your apathy<br> then you lower the flag.<br> and it can never be raised again<br> till all Americans walk heads up together<br> with hope till all have an equal opportunity<br> to live and be in freedom<br> until such day you have no flag! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387089" data-title="American Flag de Eric Cockrell" data-description="i've had mixed feelings about the American flag ever since they lowered it for President Kennedy... it took a beating during the civil rights movement. and then there was Vietnam, all the atrocities, the lies, the wasted deaths... the marches, t..."></div> </div> </div>

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