Respect is the honor we pay to people and objects that represent the highest values and / or standards of those lofty ideals...

Date:   7/3/2005 5:38:18 AM ( 19 y ago)

Folks it is that time again...  Lets talk about respect...  For people and of course the US Flag on this forth of July holiday 2005..... It is time to be patriotic... DUH!!

This country was conceived in liberty, Thur the baptism of blood of people who wanted to be free to worship, and choose their government...  The history books are full of the deeds and dreams of these founding fathers....  If you don't understand we need to talk...

I have stood at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, and heard the play back of the voices of those brave gentlemen...  Many of the signers of the declaration of independence were hunted down and killed, or  imprisoned...  There homes were taken or burned... Their families were scattered, or displaced...  They became wanted men...  All because they dared to dream of freedom; not only for them selves but for you and I....   All of us, folks....  Do you understand?? 

I have served on US Naval ships where we fly the flay day and night; 24 hours a day, while underway...  I have helped paint the US flag over the bridge, so anyone looking upon our ship would know that we were from the United States of America...  These ship were bits of the USA, where we have rescued both US and other citizens of the world and once they came aboard the ship; it was just like stepping onto US soil...

In port or at anchor we observed normal Call to Colors morning and evening... The US flag is only dipped if and when the other country dips first...  On board or a military base you will stop and honor the flag when there is a call to colors at 08:00 every morning....  I have heard it from the Equator up to the Arctic circle....  ALL US Embassies are also bits of the USA, where ever they exist.... 

 Fact: The US Flag is the most popular flag sold outside  all the recent Olympics, followed by the British, and the Confederate flags.... The US Flag stands for freedom and liberty for all...

{The "Star Spangled Banner" did not become the National Anthem until 1939....} 

{The Fourth of July was not declared a national holiday until 1941}

There are many patriotic songs and stories about the flag and USA.... Look some up or go on line....   If you can't find any lets talk....

Back years ago in the deep south; a young school boy would stand with his class and recite the  "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, One Nation Under GOD, with liberty and Justice for All... "  In a matter of fact {ho hum way} of a ten year old... The bell would ring and the trumpet would play the call to colors...  Then one day while reciting the pledge; and looking out the window, he saw one of the yard workers, an Ole Negro man, who had been slinging weeds, upon hearing the Call To Colors, stopped and snapped to attention, facing the flag being raised on the school yard....  He stood there, until the flag was up and then saluted then went back to work...  {Obviously he was a veteran}  the schoolboy from that day forth will always stop and face the flag, and salute just as he learned from that old black veteran that day...  

I was downtown Atlanta Friday 1st July, upon parking at a lot; met a wonderful young African man....  He told me that he has been in the US for a few years and became a citizen just this year so this would be his first opportunity to celebrate the 4th of July as citizen...   He said "you have peace here..."  GOD bless all those who seek peace in their lives, through out the world....

May GOD bless the United States of America, and all the freedom loving people of the world...  Let freedom ring Thur out the land.... 

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