On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:39:57 -0700 (PDT), frank
wrote:

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.

The USAF guys might have heard about the WWII raid , schweinfurt,
where they lost 50 of 260 planes. Some USAF guys may even have heard
of khe sahn, or Midway. Or Canae, or Trafalger.

Casady