Frank Miller, my favorite comic writer and artist, was the featured speaker on NPR's "This I Believe" segment today. Frank has a poignant story of patriotism, terrorism, being a New Yorker, and the American flag (which we comic readers on this blog know is one of Frank's favorite symbolic images to use). You can listen to him read it at the hyperlink.
Monday, September 11, 2006
A More Likely Hero
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Thanks for the link, Wander. I liked the quote he pulled from Benjamin Franklin, "If we don't all hang together, we all hang separately." It's a shame that petty politics, partisanship, and even what the definition of what constitutes patriotism is threatening to pull this country apart.
I think Miller has always been a true patriot, in the sense that he always questions authority and the status quo.
"Gimme a Red. Gimme a Blue."
As one of Franklin's contemporaries said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Or something like that.
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