Your logic is the very reason that HRC's flourish in Canada. You apply intent without fact.
“Support Our Troops” slogan falls foul of Olympic rules
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I'm sure the women's hockey organization made sure they
weren't catagorized as 'ladies', just as the men aren't
put out there as 'gentlemen'. Good for them.
no surprise that a former soldier would be defending the use of "support our troops" at the olympics. No real surprise that a former grunt can not see the inapropriateness of a slogan that supports killing in a place that supposedly is in support of peace and friendship.
I do not support killing. I support the men and women of the Armed Forces. Period, and of course you know that already you old troll you! How's life treating you?
come on now..... as has been pointed out to me a miriad of times, by more than one former soldier...... the purpose of a soldier is to kill. That is his/her job. Soldiers are not there to be anyones friend, their sole purpose is to kill the enemy. When you support the troops, you are supporting their purpose.
I thought the yellow ribbon was for returning convicts.
I guess that was Tony Orlando's version.
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Wrong...
The yellow ribbon has a much older tradition, try looking it up.
I'm waiting for you to prove that 'support our troops' is not a political statement.
I'll be generous, and give you 24 hours.
That's not what you asked for. And how do you prove a negative? It isn't, prove it is.
The story of a ribbon tied to a tree as a signal to a convict returning home that his loved ones have forgiven him is attested from 1959, but the ribbon in that case was white. The ribbon color seems to have changed to yellow first in a version retold by newspaper columnist Pete Hamill in 1971. The story was dramatized in June 1972 on ABC-TV (James Earl Jones played the ex-con). Later that year, Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown copyrighted the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," which became a pop hit in early 1973 and sparked a lawsuit by Hamill, later dropped. In 1975, the wife of a Watergate conspirator put out yellow ribbons when her husband was released from jail, and news coverage of that was noted and remembered by Penne Laingen, whose husband was U.S. ambassador to Iran in 1979 and one of the Iran hostages taken in the embassy on Nov. 4. Her yellow ribbon in his honor was written up in the Dec. 10, 1979, "Washington Post."