I made a batch that were oriented toward women, used the tiniest snippets of red and blue (thinking that I was being sneakily compliant), took them to the VA Hospital near me and asked if they were acceptable. The Social Services person fell all over them - he told me that a number of female Korean, WW@ vets in the hospital and they feel forgotten. I had taken a batch of plain little notecards and sat right down and wrote little notes like "Thank you for paving the way for all of the women in future generations." The Social Service director told me not to worry about the red, white and blue thing.