The Detroit Free Press Building!!!

ryph raph said:

shortstack said:

no one cares.

Replace the stars & stripes with a $$$ symbol.
:-&

that was done along time ago, why do they send our men and women over to get slaughtered and maimed and then don't want to pay their benefits? and then half our country doesn't care enough to vote and remove the evil people which rule this country and fix this shit, the middle class is getting further and further crushed each day by corporate greed, meanwhile the cost of a college degree gets more and more expensive which more and more jobs require making it harder to get out of poverty and those who do graduate end up with so much student debt, which gets harder and harder to pay off. If we didn't have any troops in the Middle East we could end all homelessness and hunger, which one would benefit our country more? I mean especially since they have demonstrated they will do everything they can to avoid paying benefits of wounded soldiers, and I have a lot of friends who are vets and that is the reality, and then they end up homeless on the streets, I would pose the question to all of you are you doing everything you can to make this country the best place it can possibly be for all who live here? or is that just not your problem to be concerned with? if the answer is not yes, then the condition of a flag should be the least of your worries, because there are people all over this nation in this country in that condition who were sent to war, and left to suffer homeless with PTSD, so yeah helping them fix their lives is way more important to me than fixing a flag, and obviously I am in the minority judging from the other comments, but that is okay I am good with that, have a nice day, and you can have the rest of this thread, sorry to take up your time

you want to thank all the veterans you would make sure they got all their benefits and got all the help they needed and not end up homeless on the street, fixing a flag won't fix that, I swear I don't understand what's wrong with this world, no one cares about the way the veterans get treated when they come back home, but we care about the condition on an inanimate object, really this thread belongs in a different section of the board anyway, it is a real stretch to request new flags on some building in Detroit Pearl Jam related. This really belongs in An All Encompassing Trip section, but whatever, you go fixing flags, I am going to keep helping the vets that no one else can seem to be bothered with, because that is what I do, so go on judging all you want

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

Yeah c'mon Hank. You can't assume all people don't do anything to help vets. That's a broad generalization. Why can't people who do help vets also care about a flag? To be honest, to me it's just a piece of fabric representative of the place I was lucky enough to be born in. I do however, respect it as a symbol that has far more meaning to a large amount of people, including a lot of veterans. Relax a little buddy. I applaud you for helping out vets in any way, but acting like you're the only one who cares is a little extreme. The five minutes it takes me to shoot an email to these people isn't going to take away from any other good work I try and do. I have numerous vets in my family from every war since Korea and I feel like I am honoring them by asking the Detroit Free Press to respect the flag.

no and I know there are people doing good work, but we as a country have fallen woefully short in that area, and really that is the part that frustrates me, you judge a society not by it's richest, but by it's poorest, and right now, as a nation we can do so much better, and that means myself included, I try to do the best I can, but I know deep down inside that I can do better, but go ahead and fix the flags if that is what your soul is telling you to do and that is what is important you should do it, after all these are just my opinions, and I will always maintain that it is a persons right to do what they think is right as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, which clearly this doesn't