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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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And once again, apparently it does.
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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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I don't have a problem with them using the picture. It's the fact that they altered it that I think is wrong.
I'd feel the same if the replaced the flag's stars with M&M's or the Statue of Liberty's torch with an ice cream cone or if they put 'Ol George in a washtub with Donald Duck paddling across the river.
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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.
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It belongs to different groups differently. It means a specific thing to most WW2 vets, it means a specific thing to most Marines, it means a specific thing to most servicemen. And I'm willing to bet that a lot of people don't like it.
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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.
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And this not respect.
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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.
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I would rather they recognize it correctly, not as a ploy by the media. Otherwise, what's the point?