Flag flap may make us ugly americans

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Sometimes you take a stand no matter how bad it makes you look to everyone else. Of course, sometimes everyone else is right, and you take the stand anyway because you don’t want people to think you’re willing to buckle.
At the Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, countries will be dipping their flags when they parade past the Queen. It will be tradition. It will be good manners. And the United States, standing on principle, will not do it.
I’m outraged that this is even an issue. The American flag dips to no monarch except Christ the King. Elizabeth is not my queen.

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To be clear: it is official that we are not dipping it, correct?
 
Yeah yeah yeah, the Left will cry about anything. Just keep Old Glory flying tall and proud to let Her Majesty know…We still ain’t comin’ back to the crown.👍
 
I’m outraged that this is even an issue. The American flag dips to no monarch except Christ the King. Elizabeth is not my queen.
And, when does your flag dip for Christ the King? Is that part of your church’s Sunday Mass service? 🤷

The U.S. has dipped its flag at several Olympiads. It’s only in a MILITARY context that it is not customary to dip the flag.
 
Yeah yeah yeah, the Left will cry about anything. Just keep Old Glory flying tall and proud to let Her Majesty know…We still ain’t comin’ back to the crown.👍
Just love the anti-British feeling. And, one wonders why people in other countries hate us for our arrogance. 🤷

This is a big nothing over which to get your bowels into an uproar. 😦
 
Just love the anti-British feeling. And, one wonders why people in other countries hate us for our arrogance. 🤷

This is a big nothing over which to get your bowels into an uproar. 😦
Forget it, we shouldn’t show respect to someone because of who their father was.
 
The US did dip the flag at the Olympics in 1912, 1924 and 1932, then didn’t, again, in 1936, apparently as a referendum on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
 
Little bit different, seeing as how it’s Jesus Christ and not some foreign queen who’s only on the throne because they didn’t want the Catholic Stuarts to rule.
Nonsense. Try to get over your hatred for the British. 😦
 
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