This is my first diary...a little nervous. Just another little "is the tide turning?" indicator.
My mother lives in upstate NY. I visit her from the City most weekends and we go do the usual things city people are starved for - namely the local mall and big box shopping (I know, I know).
Since the beginning of the war, and peaking early this year, 3/4 or more of all the cars in the mall parking lot have had yellow 'support the troops' or red, white and blue 'proud to be American' magnetic ribbons. Some cars would have two or three. We used to play a game to see if we could find ribbon-less cars. It got to the point where we felt pretty vulnerable with our "I support Iraq Veterans Againt the War' bumper sticker and were considering adding a ribbon just to not be a target.
This weekend we went to the mall after I was away all summer. In the entire time we were there, in the whole parking lot, I did not see one of those damn yellow magnets. Not one.
Not very scientific, but it was really noticable. Anyone else see anything like this?