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  •  If you find a Honda Pilot (4.00 / 4)

    With a yellow ribbon bellow the blue star flag and the John Kerry for President bumper sticker that would be mine.

    So don't bother with the flyer, we are already giving.

    Interestingly the yellow ribbon for those who don't remember,  was brought to current popular culture when the Iranians took the hostages. The song was popular and a woman,  Penne Laingen, wife of Acting Ambassador Bruce Laingen (democrat) who was taken hostage with 52 embassy staff members, tied a yellow ribbon around the tree in front of her house near DC. When the current iteration came around she was given a couple of the magnets by her husband. She decided not to put them on as the political climate was such that she felt it was a "pro-Bush message. She kept the ribbons around her trees going and said she was happy with that. Also she added that it means,  "Come Home, We Still Love You." That ribbon was donated to the Library of Congress July 2, 1991.
    Source:
    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS INFORMATION BULLETIN, 7/15/91, P. 263. NEWSWEEK, 4/12/93, p.8.

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