>>> What's more important, the flag or the Constitution ? <<<
I don't know that we should be separating the two but, in the narrow context of your question, and based on the fact that you want to make it an either or .......
This is an easy answer for me, based on my beliefs and philosophy.
"It's the flag!"
It's the flag that inspires the military man to put his life on the line. It was the flag they raised at Iwo Jima, not the Constitution, and it's the flag that they drape over the coffins of the fallen.
Although we fight to protect what's in the Constitution, some of those rights don't mean a damn thing to some of us. We were, or are, willing to protect those rights for others, even though we could care less about some of those rights but, what we all have in common, is what the flag represents and means to us.
I salute the flag, not the Constitution. I stand at attention for the flag, not the Constitution. The Constitution is there for those who are alive and are yet to live. It's the flag that represents all of that and those who have passed as well.
I say the flag!
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