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Burning of the Union Jack

posted 10 years ago by sewashburn
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I know it's just a TV miniseries, and it might of actually happened during the Revolution, but I thought that it might be unnecessary to show the burning of the Union Jack. As an American I would be upset to see the Stars and Stripes being burned in that matter, and I tried to see it from the perspective of a citizen of Great Britain. In this day and age GB is an ever more important ally in the war against terror, and I don't want to see anything drive a wedge between us. We love you guys "Over There", we just don't want to be subordinate to you, so I'm still glad we won, but we don't have to rub it in 240 years later. Like GB, the USA makes a much better friend than an enemy. Maybe I am making too big of deal about this.

[–] srnumber9 10 years ago

Welll....

It is (sort of) attempting to be a historic dramatization and flags tend to get burned at times like that.

If I saw a miniseries about the Iran Hostage crisis or the protest movements during the Vietnam war I'd be half-surprised NOT to see an American flag go up in flames.

-It's just the way it was: flags burned, houses trashed, the King himself going up in flames (at least as an effigy).

I remember a revolutionary war drama some years ago that showed one of the members of the Second Continental Congress stringing up loyalists from the trees (in his off-time of course.)

People romanticize revolutions: usually people who haven't lived through one. They are ugly, precarious times and even the "Good Guys" sometimes find themselves sinking pretty low where ethics and morality are concerned.

[–] pugsley_lover27 10 years ago

Ben Barnes, who is British, said it was hard to watch that.

[–] sewashburn 10 years ago

Perhaps I should provide full disclosure and state that I did live in England for one year when I was young. On July 4th our neighbors put a Union Jack (which I still have) on the fence of the house we were renting for the year. Those crazy Brits!

[–] pugsley_lover27 10 years ago

lol, that's funny.