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Originally Posted by Tarheeler
It trivializes that moment.
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Not in any way that matters, IMO. It doesn't diminish the flag raising in anyone's mind. It's *using* people's emotional response to the flag raising.
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It takes their sacrifice and dedication and makes it a marketable item.
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Welcome to capitalism, where all imagery is eventually used to sell something. Or haven't you noticed the use of the flag, National Anthem, Statue of Liberty, Washington crossing the Delaware, etc. to sell everything under the sun?
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The emoition it's tapping belongs for those Marines and all those that fell that day. It doesn't belong to a company trying to turn a buck.
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It belongs to America -- the *country* that sacrificed in many ways, large and small, so that that flag could be raised on that day.
An America that is not served by making everything military an off-limits relic. The military should be respected because it has earned our respect; which is why I would be offended by a use of the image that disrespected the military.
But it should not be fetishized.
Besides, I'd rather see the image used in popular culture so that people recognize it, instead of becoming the oh-so-proper-but-largely-forgotten province of military history buffs.