Quote Originally Posted by Asia

I think we should all stick to burning our bras *smiles*
While you're wearing them?

I'm not aware of burning the flag being so important in other countries - as Asia says, it's nowhere near as important in Britain, no matter what the Daily Mail says.

I suppose it's that there aren't equivalent evocative symbols for other countries as that "Raising the stars and stripes in Iwo Jima" image (oo I hope it was Iwo Jima otherwise I'll feel foolish). The way that USA rallied around that flag that was rescued from the Twin Towers proved that it's a little more than just a piece of cloth. I don't think it's more important than human life... so if some zit-faced teen in some crappy college burns the flag, I don't think he should be beaten up.

(For Britain, I think the most common evocative image that touches the country is either a poppy field on the Somme... or the image of St Paul's Cathedral standing proudly during the middle of a month-long Nazi bombing campaign on London. Sad that they're both related to war, but neither involves a flag. I can see someone burning a poppy over here being as frowned upon as burning a flag over there.)

Well, I did a whole paragraph on the topic there, so I'll go back to thinking about Asia burning her bras. Yum. Maybe lighting a candle with them, and writing "down with war" on her stomach with the wax...

Sigh!

Q xx