A strange, multi-colored bedsheet.

[Tyler Durden]

I'm driving to the Wendy's because I have no time for a REAL lunch; too many issues stacked up.

Across M-127 headed south, there's a car dealership with a flag about 60' long and 30' wide. Have to figure something like that is worth a couple of grand, right? Eh.

So I'm driving the 4 miles to the Wendy's, and there are fucking FLAGS everywhere. Funny I haven't noticed before. Now I am, and it's like eh, eh, eh, so what, eh.

I crossed a line today myself.

Say a word to yourself 10-20 times: door door door door door door door door door door door door door door door door. It becomes MEANINGLESS.

The flag is an overused and meaningless SYMBOL. For me it has come to represent NOTHING. You might as well hang a tie-died bedsheet. They're all at half mast today: another poor schmuck got whacked in IRAQ and the flag is MEANINGLESS. I live in HISTORY now, where the Civil War is fought, and geniuses conceive of new nations. Today?

Meaningless. I don't know if it will ever mean anything to me again.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. I thought the same way as you do.

The flag became meaningless to me. I even got to the point where if I saw a flag I thought for sure the person displaying it must be a supporter of the war and the Bush regime.

I got real mad because I grew up loving that flag, it stood for the great country my parents taught me that America was. It stood for heroics and freedom. It stood for us being the “good guys”.

In my quest to reclaim the flag I now display a bouquet of flags in my front bay window. I use white Christmas lights, with yellow ribbons and a big peace sign I made out of Styrofoam and blue glitter.

I want to get back that loving feeling I had for this country. I’m very disappointed in dems giving Bush his money. We are so screwed.

[rhiannon55]

2. I know what you mean. I see the flag and think how garish the colors are,

and how obscene that anyone could display it proudly. A tie-dyed bed sheet would have more meaning.

[Louis Cipher]

3. It is the most basic identifiers.

It is one of the most absurd of the ties that bind us, a piece of cloth. It's mostly for those who can't iterate their political viewpoints. It is for people that don't understand that exercising our rights and protecting those rights is a far greater symbol of what it means to be an American. Those people can't think in abstract concepts, they need something physical, so they got a rectangle piece of fabric. I see it misused all the time, the post office in my town flies the U.S. flag 24/7 rain or shine and they don't have a light on it at night. I'm tempted to tell them, but why bother? I'd come across sounding like a freper asshole and quite frankly I just don't give a shit. I also love it when you see it misrepresented as an advertising tool. Like they'll put seven red and white strips with one giant white star in a blue field, Hate to tell ya folks, that ain't no U.S. flag.

[Benhurst]

4. The flag has been reduced to background noise. More often than

not it isn't even displayed properly. Sad. But not as sad as what has been done to the Constitution.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Visit a veteran's cemetery, and see the flags covering the hillsides, like flowers.

That will move you. But what moves you is the thought of the men beneath those flags, not the symbol that flies over them. A symbol is just a symbol.

[Javaman]

6. Say door over and over and not only does it become meaningless...

but your mouth also fails to work after a while and the word morphs into something like doooorrrlslsls

[Rosemary2205]

7. Oh I disagree.

The flag is very meaningful to me. Especially on days like Memorial or Veterans day. That doesn't mean I think "love it or leave it" or that we are perfect. But I love my countrymen and ideals of what most Americans want to accomplish in this country and in the world -- even if we do mess things up a lot.

[spoony]

8. You've misunderstood

When a word is repeated, it doesn't BECOME meaningless--it still has the same meaning--it only seems to you, and temporarily at that, to be meaningless.

Door still means door.