One of Sarah's artistic moments...In one brilliant shot she captured the story of her life.... The Italian flag, the Union Jack - yes, Sam is a British subject and so are the girls, and the European Union flag. Missing, the Stars and Stripes.
The rainbow flag... no, Sarah is not gay. That flag, is the flag of "Peace" - Pace. Don't believe me... check out Wikipedia. Rainbow flag To my delight these last few years - the anti - war / anti - Bush / anti - globalization crowd - while demonstrating, protesting or striking in the Italian streets have carried this symbol of "peace" . It is often flown on the same pole as the symbol of the Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle. Ironic, isn't it? Symbol of peace flying with the symbol of communism? How many millions lost their life in the pursuit of the worker's paradise? Wonder if they thought about world peace?
Which got me thinking....
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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