See at 3:14 minutes as the paratroopers drag the flag across the football field.
A stirring moment for any patriot to behold. Sickening.
More to the point (KathyinBlacksburg - 12/15/2007 12:21:23 PM)
This was a Blackwater parachute. So, the paratroopers were from Blackwater USA (now renamed and re-branded "Blackwater Global"). It's Bush's private army. We are so up the creek.
See Jeremy Scahill's book, Blackwater.
Interesting idea, jumping with flag unfurled (Teddy - 12/15/2007 8:43:19 PM)
and kinda hard to manage to spot jump on the drop zone hauling the flag down with you---- some one forgot to plan for the jumper's arrival on the X (i.e., what happens to the flag when the carrier hits the ground). But is that not typical of the whole Bush entourage: heap big front and no follow-through?
Anyway, a mercenary force respects only its own safety and its own bottom line. Today they work here, tomorrow they can (and will) work for their former opponent. A flag is just another rag.