Jonzjob":65cmsbsn said:
I could quite easily fly the flag of our adopted country without any problems at all 8) 8) It's flown everywhere WITH PRIDE :twisted:
I could also fly the Cross of St George and there are probably more Frenchmen who would recognise it as the English flag and not, as lots of 'English' men who thought that the St George pin I wear on my gilet asked if was the Lifeboat emblem?? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I am always surprised to see so many signs out here charting the travels of Mr Richard the Lion Heart. He seems to have been all over. The French understand the meaning of love of country. Just because we have left our native land, doesn't mean we don't still hold it dear and love what it used to represent. I have never been particularly worried about nationality but, like the world, am changing as I get older.
I believe Walter Scott wrote:
Breathes there a man with soul so dead
who never to himself hath said,
This is my own my native land.
Whose heart hath n'ere within him burned
as home his footsteps he hath turned
from wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there be, go mark him well,
for him no minstrel raptures swell
High though his titles power and pelf,
That wretch, concentred all on self,
living shall forfeit fair reknown and doubly dying
shall go down
to the vile dust from whence he sprung
unwept, unhonoured and unsung.
So there. Fly the flag.
