Comments | kho: some shit going down in my home town

kho

some shit going down in my home town

May 11, 2011 22:09

The morning after it was announced that Osama Bin Laden was killed the flag that flew over the War Memorial on LSU campus was taken down and burned by someone. A few days later the 23 year old student who did it turned himself in. In a later article it is said that there was $7,530 worth of damage at the memorial.

( my thoughts on flag burning, and what happened here )

politics

Comments 3

well.... minaloush May 12 2011, 03:58:44 UTC

wait - i don't think it goes without saying it was about osama. i think it easily could have been about the reaction to the news about osama much more than anything else - i was pretty squicked by that as well ( ... )

Re: well.... kho May 12 2011, 05:28:14 UTC

My thing about not wanting to address the war and the situation is that I'm kind of talked out about it. I've had that debate. It's murky and not at all clear and/or spelled out, and there's the whole "do the ends justify the means" and blah blah blah ( ... )

Re: well.... kho May 12 2011, 05:29:55 UTC

As far as flag burning.... To a degree, technically, you're correct. No one died for the flag, as technically, it's just a flag, I bought it at Walmart, whatever. However, symbolically, you couldn't be more wrong, because the soldiers every day wear that flag on their shoulder as a reminder of what they're fighting for, their friends and family back home ( ... )