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| Seahawks player carries Philippine flag upside down |
When a Philippine flag with the red stripe flown upwards, it means the country is in a state of war. However, we're not in a state of war, we're in a middle of state of national calamity due to Superstorm Yolanda/Haiyan and that mistake happened when Seattle Seahawks' Doug Baldwin carried that flag backwards.
When a netizen questioned such mistake, the official Seattle Seahawks' Twitter responded that they're "fighting the devastation of Haiyan which has been worse than many war-torn regions of the world." They're right. The devastation caused by the superstorm last week really is worse than any war-torn regions in the world but anyway, during the match between the Seahawks vs. the Vikings in the NFL, Seahawks started a fundraiser among its supporters for the typhoon-stricken Visayas, having solicited over $24,000 for the relief operations to be coursed through the Red Cross in Washington.
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