On Aug 24, 4:12*am, korben dallas wrote:
Tiger wrote:

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what did you expect? the message that is delivered loud and clear into
the head of every person living in the usa is: "fake? no problem, as
long as it sounds patriotic". its results are visible on all levels,
ranging from "wmd in iraq", through us cities posting "patriotic"
bull**** on their websites (likehttp://www.solvangca.com/flag/1.htm),
to veterans exaggerating their service records, and to crooks posing as
veterans. the vietnam vet idea is a story in itself. can you imagine an
ss veteran in germany driving around with a car sticker identifying him
as such?

Go to snopes.com enter folding US flag, you'll get a few hits.

What is sad is stories like this 'sound' true, but they're not. There
is a whole lot of them going around about Taps that aren't true. Not
to mention the one about the Marine chaplain and the whole bit about
how everything was due to a veteran. Sounds nice, but not true. But,
its read and copied in all the papers on Veterans day.

I guess people who don't know history need the short stuff. It would
be better to read about Chosin, Peleliu, The Thousand Plane Raid, you
can probably come up with a list depending on what your area of
interest was or when and what you did in the service or what your
branch of service was.