standing for the flag?

Question

I know all the reasons i should stand for the flag but ive heard so much in the news about people not standing for the flag and i just want to know some legit reasond why...i am NOT looking for people insulting those who do not stand for the flag or suggesting that they move to another country, save that crap for other questions

PLEASE READ WHAT IVE WRITTEN ABOVE IM GETTING ALOT OF ANWSERS HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IM LOOKING FOR

Answer 1

http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-article-is-published-on-internet.html

Answer 2

Our country's flag is the symbol of what and who we are. When you stand for the flag you are showing respect for your country.

It is such a small thing to do for so great a privilege that has been given to you. You have the right to look other people in the eye, to run your life your way, to be equal to all others under the law, and to be whatever you want to be. More than 3/4 of the world cannot practice those freedoms;many are slaves who can be crushed any time their Master feels like stepping on them.

When you stand for your flag you acknowledge all of these rights and privileges to the whole world. You show who you are.

Answer 3

I think regardless of how one feels about the politics that are currently occurring should stand behind a respect-full representation of our national flag.

As a military combat veteran, I did not always agree with the decisions made that I had to follow. However, I did so with the best interest of my country.

When I witness those who do not stand, don't take their hats off and even chew gum and talk during the singing of the National Anthem, I feel a sense of sadness that they have no personal honor for the very country that allows them to act in an irreverent manner.

Considering some country's that would just kill you or torture you for being obstinate, in my country you can curse a police officer, flip the President off and burn a flag. I agree with none of that.

In my country, when I pass away, my country's flag will be draped on my casket. I will be buried in a veterans cemetery. Because I believe in what it represents. The hard work, blood and honor that my forefathers and women have given to allow me to be given the rights I have.

Answer 4

I have very strong feelings about our country and our flag... However, I can remember when I was in jr. high school, wondering.... How can they make me stand and participate in the pledge to the flag... I can remember thinking... "I thought the was a free country".....

A few years later, I found myself in the desert shooting at Iraqis... (that also means being shot at myself.)

I realize that everyone doesn't have the same opinion, and that is OK. I do wish that folks would think before they act! THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY! So, do what you want, but don't be surprised when someone extends the disrespect to you that they feel you are extending by acting out on your opinions..

A little respect can go a long way!

Answer 5

While protocol calls for able-bodied citizens to stand for the passing of the flag, we also have something called the first amendment. People who don't stand for the flag or burn the flag in protest feel that they have legitimate political ground to do so. I'm not going to enumerate what those grounds are, there are many and you may or may not agree with some or all of them. The important point here is that they feel that the government of the United States has done or permitted something so egregious that they need to use the flag as a sign of their discontent.

It is amazing to me the number of people who claim to love America, but simple can't stand Americans and seem not to have a clue what it really means to be an American. It's not easy to be an American. America is first class citizenship. If you want to call yourself the land of the free, then your symbol cannot just be a flag. It also has to be a citizen exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Free speech means listening to a woman center stage espousing at the top of her lungs that which you would spend a life time opposing at the top of yours. America isn't easy.

There are many in this country who quote Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906) "My country right or wrong", but fail to give service to the entire quote, which actually is "Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right." John Q. Adams, sixth president of the United States and first son to follow his father into the office, also spoke to this issue:

" I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum ["Let justice be done though heaven should fall" - anonymous, circa 43 B.C.]. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right."

To my mind, the principles of freedom in this country as embodied in the Constitution out weigh any individual symbol, flag, emblem, building or oath. Our principles of freedom are what make us humane. Our ability to look critically at ourselves and to correct our path when we have chosen the wrong one is what makes us strong. So when you see people not standing, or burning a flag, or picketing a Presidential motorcade, ask yourself what is it that they see? What has upset them so? Do they have a point? This is how we have meaningful dialog. This is how we keep America strong.

Answer 6

Because they do not believe in standing up for a country that isn't theirs. I knew that while I was in the UK, I would not stand for their flag because I loved my own country, and I couldn't see the British flag waving above our flag. It's just the way it goes.

Answer 7

It's a matter of respect. Our flag represents our freedoms and the many battles fought to get them. No matter what political views any of us have, I think we should be proud and grateful to live in a free society and have enough respect for those who've died for our right to freedom. That's why I stand for the flag.

Answer 8

I honestly dont know. My little sister's school stopped altogether saying the pledge. People are so disrespectful. I still cant fathom that people want to take "one nation under God" out.
Its a pledge to your country and whether you believe what the pledge says or not, you should say it and respect the United States of America.

Answer 9

if you don't want to stand for the flag and show respect for what it represents, which includes your even being in this country then high tail it out of here.

Answer 10

It's fine if you choose to "stand for the flag" as it symbolizes something for you.

Answer 11

i believe it is out of respect for those who fight for us and for the country, someone has to go away to war, and I stand to solute those so I don't have my family taken away. It is also respectful to take you hat off, and I always wondered why about that too.