Today is Flag Day. All across our nation, the Red, White, and Blue will be flying from flagpoles and front porches. It is my firm belief that Americans should honor our flag every day. How? Well, how about learning something about the origin of the Stars and Stripes? How about going back and re-reading the Constitution, the Bill of Rights? How about remembering why and how we started as a Nation? And, if you aren’t interested, may I ask why you aren’t interested?
I am shocked at the apathy that some Americans feel toward patriotism, toward government, toward national and world events. It’s as if we elect officials to take care of all political things for us then we forget that politics affects us in specific ways, whether favorable or unfavorable. We seem to be affected by a generalized blindness. We see pretty much what we want to see. We hear what is agreeable to the way we think.
When did patriotism become politically incorrect? When did it become wrong to be grateful that we live in the best country in the world? Why on earth should we want to be like every other European country? We have always been a world leader. We’ve always stood for individual freedom.
Anyway, I hope this Flag Day, we do some reading about which President designated a particular day to honor Old Glory. I hope we read about the first flag that was sewn and why it was important. I hope we read up on American history and remember those who lost their lives in planting our Flag–not just any piece of cloth, but the Red, White, and Blue.
I cringe when I hear a celebrity deliberately butcher the words of The Star Spangled Banner. Regardless of what they think, it is not cute. We don’t often hear the last verse of our National Anthem. I reprint it here:
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