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Oddly, I think if you'd asked this before 9/11, I would have estimated a smaller percentage. That's just how it seems to me.


I've had dinner with old friends in Boston over the past few years. Cynics like me, they mentioned the bloom of American flags after 9/11 and their skepticism of what they consider near-jingoist flag-waving.

I have been impressed and puzzled by the ubiquitous (and sometimes fading) "The Power of Pride" stars-and-bars bumper stickers. Who made them? What does "The Power of Pride" mean? What is the intended point? Feel good?

Anyone with "The Power of Pride" insider info please chime in. Oh, and if anyone has insider info on the origin of "Proud to be an American", please share with the group.

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I saw an amusing site the other day. I was driving behind a pickup truck with a cab on the back. In the window of the cab was an American flag sticker that had obviously been both out in the sun too long and of cheap quality, so it was now the good old yellow, white, and blue Seems to me if you were so gung-ho about your patriotism, you'd at least want to have a color-accurate flag on your truck.



It seems a morbid interest, and I don't have the time or resources to study it systematically/scientifically, but I do find the rise and fall of flag waving very interesting. How many fire trucks do you see today in the U.S. with the Stars and Stripes flying? What happened?
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.