Second Place in Derby #25 (Citizenship), with 447 votes!

Sometimes you have to lose something to be reminded of how important it was in the first place. “May you live in interesting times” doesn’t seem like a curse until those times are all around you. Sure, South Carolina is like the cousin who hit you with mashed potatoes every Thanksgiving, and you’ve never quite trusted Ohio, and okay, you lost all that money on Arizona this year, but really, so many people gave so much to try and create a great place to live. Symbols are pretty, but they’re meaningless without people to define them.

This shirt was designed by: jamescho84, placing the torch of our future above the symbol of our tragedies. Maybe it was just because it looked nice, or maybe he means to show that America has always been about finding the future, not reliving the past. We’ll let you find your own interpretation. It’s a free country.

Wear this shirt: instead of something that looks like a flag. Flags should be flying in the air, not hanging in your closet.

Don’t wear this shirt: to a Confederate Re-Enactors’ Society meeting. They’ll do you like they did Captain America.

This shirt tells the world: “Turns out patriotic graphics don’t have to be hideously gaudy.”

We call this color: Asphalt of the Earth.

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