women wearing hats during the Anthem

[robinb]

FireDancer never said he didn't care about the flag.

Respect is about what is in your heart. Not about what is on your head.

Just because you take your hat off doesn't mean a whit about what you respect.

I personally don't think a flag means a darn thing. I am very patriotic, but I don't get all wrapped up in the Stars and Stripes. Respect for your country's flag has no bearing on respect for your country itself. My love and respect for the United States goes much deeper than some red, white and blue fabric.

I the spirit of full disclosure ... I always stand, take off my cap and sing off-key for the National Anthem. I always sit with my hat on for the Pledge of Allegiance as well as the song God Bless America because I definitely do not agree with either. If I'm lucky, I am able to avoid them and not get the evil eye from the people around me . And if I do get the evil eye ... I couldn't care less. That's what it means to live in the United States. I have the right to sit with my hat on and they have they right to give me the evil eye.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Wow!
Several here are doing mighty good impressions of an angle greater than 90 degrees.
And that's sad.

 

[DizBelle]

If you are active military, and out of uniform, you do not salute ( the flag )
A veteran, however, may salute, even if in civilian clothes.

Someone else said that the active military salute to distinguish themselves as someone serving our country. So, that isn't true then?

 

[shrubber]

I personally don't think a flag means a darn thing. I am very patriotic, but I don't get all wrapped up in the Stars and Stripes. Respect for your country's flag has no bearing on respect for your country itself. My love and respect for the United States goes much deeper than some red, white and blue fabric.

I the spirit of full disclosure ... I always stand, take off my cap and sing off-key for the National Anthem. I always sit with my hat on for the Pledge of Allegiance as well as the song God Bless America because I definitely do not agree with either. If I'm lucky, I am able to avoid them and not get the evil eye from the people around me . And if I do get the evil eye ... I couldn't care less. That's what it means to live in the United States. I have the right to sit with my hat on and they have they right to give me the evil eye.

Why on earth would you stand and sing for the anthem but not the pledge?

 

[shrubber]

Someone else said that the active military salute to distinguish themselves as someone serving our country. So, that isn't true then?

I think that someone was me.
Active military in unifrom salute the flag
Active military out of uniform do not
Veterans may salute the flag regardless
members of other organizations, civil service, Scouts, salute the flag if in uniform

 

[lovemygoofy]

I think that someone was me.
Active military in unifrom salute the flag
Active military out of uniform do not
Veterans may salute the flag regardless
members of other organizations, civil service, Scouts, salute the flag if in uniform

As of 2008 military members not in uniform can salute the flag.

 

[robinb]

Why on earth would you stand and sing for the anthem but not the pledge?

Because I like the song? And it has no mention of god. At least not in the first stanza that we all sing.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I think etiquette dictates that women do not have to remove their hats. I always remove mine, if I'm wearing a baseball cap.

 

[shrubber]

As of 2008 military members not in uniform can salute the flag.

You' re right, I always think of that revision for veterans, but you are correct

 

[shrubber]

Because I like the song? And it has no mention of god. At least not in the first stanza that we all sing.

No wonder people look at you funny.

 

[DizBelle]

No wonder people look at you funny.

Wow... talk about disrespectful...

 

[shrubber]

I personally don't think a flag means a darn thing.......I always sit with my hat on for the Pledge of Allegiance as well as the song God Bless America because I definitely do not agree with either. If I'm lucky, I am able to avoid them and not get the evil eye from the people around me . And if I do get the evil eye ... I couldn't care less.

Yeah, I'm the disrepectful one

 

[Christopher Robin]

Wow... talk about disrespectful...

How is that disrespectful?
If I hear someone singing off key, I look at them funny, too.

 

[Sparx]

i always stand up, but i don't remove my hat. i wear knitted hats, and i have very curly hair. it would take me visiting a mirror to get my hat back on, and my hair fixed comfortably. i don't think not taking my hat off is disrespectful.

 

[robinb]

The melody was an old drinking song, so I'm sure I'm not the first one to sing it off key!

And Christopher (no relation) Robin, good cover but I'm sure that's not what shubber meant.

 

[shrubber]

i always stand up, but i don't remove my hat. i wear knitted hats, and i have very curly hair. it would take me visiting a mirror to get my hat back on, and my hair fixed comfortably. i don't think not taking my hat off is disrespectful.

It is, you should take your hat off.

 

[Christopher Robin]

The melody was an old drinking song, so I'm sure I'm not the first one to sing it off key!

And Christopher (no relation) Robin, good cover but I'm sure that's not what shubber meant.

Oh, I'm sure that most of us 'know' what many here really mean.

 

[shrubber]

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 

[BabyPiglet]

I don't see a good reason why anyone should remove their hat. Doing something because that's just how it's always been seems a little outdated in the 21st century.

By the way, I'm still very respectful of this country and our flag, but I just don't understand how a hat symbolizes that.

 

[Christopher Robin]

I don't see a good reason why anyone should remove their hat. Doing something because that's just how it's always been seems a little outdated in the 21st century.

By the way, I'm still very respectful of this country and our flag, but I just don't understand how a hate symbolizes that.

Great typo in that last line.
WWFS?
(What would Freud say?)