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keltic63
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 Posted: 10/02/04 - 01:36 Post subject: how many different versions?
of this ribbon have you seen on vehicles?
I saw at least 6 on my way home from work yesterday., including a camo magnet.
at what point does a symbol of support become trite, cliche, and ineffective?
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 10/02/04 - 08:58 Post subject:
I've seen 4.
There's the yellow one you posted, there's that same yellow one with "God Bless our Troops" and then a Red/White/Blue versions of Support and God Bless.
During Operation Desert Storm, I was the community organizer of goody boxes for the troops. We also sent letters. I wouldn't know until years later how much the support at home meant to the troops overseas fighting a war. Even the support from total strangers.
My husband found some pictures a couple weeks ago of his community tieing yellow ribbons around trees when he served in the Gulf War, and he got choked up-14 years later. He also said he was lucky enough to have a big family who kept him supplied in letters, but there were a lot of people in the armed services who don't have family and letters and other means of support from total strangers was a big booost to them. It reaffirmed they are doing a good thing, protecting our freedom.
I believe the support (in way someone chooses to express it) becomes trite when they do it out of habit rather than out of true support (I hope that made sense).
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 10/02/04 - 09:48 Post subject:
ive seen a ton of those lately! ive also seen pink ones for breast cancer.
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Posted: 10/02/04 - 10:02 Post subject:
There are way too many. 
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 10/02/04 - 10:22 Post subject: Re: how many different versions?
| keltic63 wrote: | | at what point does a symbol of support become trite, cliche, and ineffective? |
It happened a long time ago for the wear yellow bracelets. It's still a good cause and I suppose as long as you can get people to spend money on it, it's still working. But a heck of a lot of people don't even know why they're wearing it. It just became the "cool" thing to wear. I hate trends.
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