A recent cross-country trip found me picking up a to-go order from Bear Town restaurant in Evanston, Wyoming. The owners had a couple of copies of an apology letter from a woman named Jeannie Cornia posted in the waiting area and at the register. Ms Cornia, it seems, had lambasted the new owners of the restaurant as "unpatriotic" and "unamerican" in a widely-disseminated email broadside and on her Facebook page.
Their crime? They removed the American and POW-MIA flags from the pole in front of the restaurant. That, apparently, is all that Cornia needed to know - that, and perhaps that the new owners are "messicans." She didn't call them to complain, she simply assumed - and we know who the ASS was this time. See, if she'd done a little research, she'd have learned that the flags were so tattered and torn from the windy Wyoming weather that they were taken down to be repaired. Does she not know that flying a damaged flag is disrespectful?
The ultrapatriotic Cornia, like so many self-described patriots, seems unaware of the U S Flag Code. That's why these super-patriots fly their flags in the rain and snow and leave them up all night. I've seen flags that are so battered that there are no stripes left except below the union (the blue block of stars); flags faded to pastels; and flags with individual stripes separated like the tassels on a stripper's G-string. Hell, your local Boy Scouts know better than to treat Old Glory like that!
Gee: if she'd asked one simple question, the woman would have saved the world from another act of abject stupidity. Guess that's what happens when sheep try to think.
