Cultural Traits Reflected By Patches

Every so often you will find an embroidered patch that has actually been created in order to reflect certain cultural tastes

. You will find times when it is easy to understand these cultural traits because they're quite popular. Other times they are more obscure to the extent that the average individual is clueless. If you want a fine illustration of what I am talking about then all you have to do is take a look at the Military Patch section at The Cheap Place.

The patch I am discussing here has the words When I die bury me face down so the whole world can kiss my ass' embroidered on to it and it measures 4 x 2.5 inches. Most people are oblivious to the fact that this patch is in the military section and even more clueless to the fact that it relates to the Vietnam War. But in order to get a better understanding of the meaning of this patch then all you've to do is a bit of research to find out about the origins of the phrase. This all boils down to the fact that you can find many Vietnam War veterans who really feel that they really don't get the same amount of respect that other veterans from other wars do.

The issue with Vietnam

You really should have a bit of understanding about the Vietnam War if you would like understand this military patch. This war was fought during the 1960s and 1970s and in the beginning it was absolutely nothing to do with the US. But in order to stop the spread of communism from China into Vietnam, the U.S. became engaged in 1965. This was never a popular war with the people right from the start and things just got worse, the longer it went on and it became clear that this was an unsustainable predicament.

It got to the stage where a lot of American citizens began to have very bad feelings towards the military personnel and this was largely to do with efforts by the American Media to give the impression that the people serving in the American military were merely vicious animals. People that were returning to the us from Vietnam were often met by protests and the airport in addition to verbal abuse and the media showing them to be killers of innocent children. This is why the Vietnam veterans did not think too kindly of the citizens back home.

The History of the Phrase

So you can now start to get a better perception of how this phrase applies to the Vietnam War. It's very likely that it was the combat soldiers who coined this phrase during the war. There were many combat soldiers who had this phrase engraved on their cigarette lighters. With this phrase growing in popularity, it became the norm for American soldiers to return home feeling defiant in the face of all this criticism.

Military patches will often have a substantial amount of deep history to them and they have many cultural implications that the average American would not have any clue about. If you are in any way intrigued about these patches then you should think about collecting patches. You really can find out a great deal about embroidered patches and what they mean. You will meet a host of new people if you start patch collecting and there's just so much enjoyment to be had from it.

by: chadeg0hst

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