but i have to imagine there are others, proud-as-anything australian soldiers, or mourning family members they left behind, that would take great umbrage to the site.
rightfully so, i say.
You know my family's military history. My grandfather still marches in ANZAC Day, and was mighty upset that I learned Japanese at school.
I don't think he really cares whether anyone burns the flag or not.
It has suddenly occurred to me that part of my irreverance is because there has been debate for years in Australia about changing our flag, something I'm in two minds over. Y'see, people don't like the Union Jack in the corner, because we are no longer a British colony (same complaint about how the Queen of Australia is actually English).
Perhaps if I was happy that the flag was representative of the country, I;d feel differently about it...
...but maybe not. I still like Fragman's argument the best.
