A True Story, Best I Can Tell
I know this sounds like the stuff of urban legend, but I had someone tell me this story today, someone with no real interest in exaggerating, so I would tend to believe it.
He was Canadian-born, but recently became a U.S. citizen. At the ceremony, he was given a flag pin that, of course, said "MADE IN CHINA" on the backside.
There's not a single American source of flag pins anymore? I assume with all of the news anchors and politicians, there would be SOMEBODY who makes them domestically, just because.
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Great link, JThatcher (it's a link to an American made flag association).
I found this photo via google images of a China-made USA flag pin (it's not the pin I'm referring to in the story).
The US Army was buying berets made in China a few years ago. Then there was that surveillance plane incident...
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"Outrage over Beijing's handling of the spyplane incident prompted the Pentagon earlier this month to cancel distribution of 618,000 black berets purchased from a British firm that subcontracted the work to a Chinese factory. Because the contract is all but filled, the Army will take possession of the berets. In fact, some early arrivals were already handed out to the National Guard and Reserve.
But all of these Chinese-made berets will be recalled for disposal. They may be auctioned to foreign militaries that don't mind headgear made in China. Or they may be sold to surplus stores for American consumers who don't mind headgear made in China."
Not exactly a lean process.
I believe the story is apocryphal. My wife was naturalized last year, with several hundred others, and there were no pins handed out at the ceremony.
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