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have no crosses but do wear the german style helmet
actually have two (sorry primo) would like to get the cross rear view mirrors
and will someday noe disrespect to anybody but get a life folks all theis
happened before most of you were born..

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When I was a young lad in school in Oklahoma, I had ordered one of those crosses from the back of a magazine and wore it to school. For the most part the kids thought it was cool (I did too), but my Oklahoma History teacher asked me if I understood what that cross represented. I told him I jsut thought it was cool. The next 10 - 15 minutes was a history course from him to me. Afterward I never wore the cross again. I believe I threw it away.

Wether or not that cross means the same thing today or not, I will never have one.

 

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Mom's Jewish... I was raised Catholic. The Maltese Cross means this to me:

The Badge of a Fire Fighter is the Maltese Cross. The Maltese Cross is a symbol of protection and a badge of honor. Its story is hundreds of years old.

When a courageous band of crusaders known as The Knights of St. John fought the Saracens for possession of the holy land, they encountered a new weapon unknown to European warriors. It was a simple, but horrible device of war. It brought excruciating pain and agonizing death upon the brave fighters for the cross.

As the crusaders advanced on the walls of the city, they were struck by glass bombs containing naphtha. When they became saturated with the highly flammable liquid, the Saracens would hurl a flaming torch into their midst. Hundreds of the knights were burned alive; others risked their lives to save their brothers-in-arms from dying painful, fiery deaths.

Thus, these men became our first Fire Fighters and the first of a long list of courageous men. Their heroic efforts were recognized by fellow crusaders who awarded each hero a badge of honor - a cross similar to the one fire fighters wear today. Since the Knights of St. John lived for close to four centuries on a little island in the Mediterranean Sea named Malta, the cross came to be known as the Maltese Cross.

The Maltese Cross is our symbol of protection. It means that the Fire Fighter who wears this cross is willing to lay down his life for you just as the crusaders sacrificed their lives for their fellow man so many years ago. The Maltese Cross is a Fire Fighter's badge of honor, signifying that he works in courage - a ladder's rung away from death.

 

Actually I think quite differently when I see the Confederate Battle Flag. It see it in a technical sense. So technically speaking -- this is what I see:

I see the most well known battle flag of the Confederates States of America (CSA).

The CSA fought to succeed the Union of the States and was put down by the U.S. military. So technically the CSA = the LOSERS of said conflict.

Therefore the Battle Flag, technically(not emotionally speaking) = the flag of the LOSING side

So when I see people fly it, I have to wonder why they fly the flag of the LOSERS and not the American flag who were the WINNERS?

Therefore, if someone is flying the flag of the LOSERS and not the WINNERS, technically that makes that person a LOSER in my book!

 

the past is in the past.there is more things far inportant that to worry who wears what or what flag is flying remember it is a free country.but that is why the free world is closing in on everybody people want to live in the past or what took place so long ago.look around the same people we have fought thru the years is now your friend. forget the past it happen .you cant drell on things nothing stays the same .

 

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I could see how it could offend you, My grandfather died during the holocaust. It is a real sore subject with my family.

But he fell from a gaurd tower but he is still dead. J/k
We need to stop being so sensitive its getting out of hand kind of like lawsuits its getting crazy.


ps- please don't get offend at my harmless joke [&:]