Is America Made of Flags, or This Guy?

This is why I love documentary and the Internet, because such simple images of video can speak volumes.  This thoughtful piece reflecting on the decline of visual patriotism since 9/11, entitled “MY LITTLE RANT…YUP, A FEW BEARS, TOO” by Sloop, is from a guy in Northern Ohio, an area I have come to know well in my travels making FREE FOR ALL! I also have come to know that truer than any political axiom, “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.”  If this sad guy has no other way to measure how America is doing 8 years after 9/11 than how many flags are waving in his small town, unfortunately, other people are working off the same rudimentary criteria.  They, too, may be drunk and heavily mustached.