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Aug 28, 2009
You are wrong. I am a United States Marine, and the flag he talks about is the American flag. The chorus is about the American flag that the soldier carries, but the verse is about a woman who approaches the soldier with her white flag (that wasn't visible to him originally) and he procedes to fire thinking she is a threat. After the gunfire stops, the woman lies dead, and then he realizes she was holding a white flag. People may consider him a hero at home, but he knows that there was nothing heroic about what he did. After all that, he still trusts in the American Flag, which is the true sign of a hero.