I have one question.
Would it have been more proper for a film crew to go to a serviceman's funeral and ask the family, "if it would be OK to film for a commercial"?
Should anyone be making commercials involving a serviceman's funeral?
If anyone wants to see the terrible video they can go the CBS link I posted earlier, and half way down is the youtube copy of the RNC video titled "Wave the Stars & Stripes”. I wouldn't recommend playing it if you have a weak stomach.
Here is what the video is about from the CBS article:
"On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, “Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America,” an essay she’d entered in the “Wave the Stars & Stripes” essay contest and won. The RNC turned that essay into a three and a half minute video, a visually stirring montage rolling over Victoria’s words about sharing the Pledge with Americans who have stood at important moments in history."
The movie industry cannot feature 100% accurate uniforms etc., unless they have approval from the United States military. It would be illegal to have the actors wear them without proper authorization.
Even so, when they film a movie not really endorsed by the DOD and it's another anti-military POS, we usually aren't cool about it. Same goes to some political party making an advertisement asking folks to vote for them if they care about the military and fallen servicemen and women. Yeah it's not what they say but it's implied.
As it goes there is nothing wrong with 90% of the video but they should have found a different ending.
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