The Upside Down FLAG is a Reconized International Distress Signal! Believe me the
Veterans are in Distress.... BUT do not even doubt this is what our FLAG Means To US!!!!
We Have and are Doing Our Part, How About You????
For Permission to Burn the Flag
Read on...
To Those Who Want To Burn the Flag, just ask permission... Does the first Amendment
give us the right to desecrate the American flag? Or is the flag a sacred symbol
of our nation, deserving protection by law?
Tough call? "The Solution"
For those who want to light Old Glory on fire, stomp all over it, or spit on it
to make some sort of "statement," I say let them do it. But under one condition:
they MUST get permission from three sponsors.
First, you need permission of a war veteran. Perhaps a Marine who fought at Iwo
Jima? The American flag was raised over Mount Surabachi upon the bodies of
thousands of dead buddies. Each night spent on Iwo meant half of everyone you
knew would be dead tomorrow, a coin flip away from a bloody end upon a patch of
sand your mother couldn't find on a map. Or maybe ask a Vietnam vet who spent
years tortured in a small, filthy cell unfit for a dog. Or a Korean War soldier
who helped rescue half a nation from Communism. Or a Desert Storm veteran who
repulsed a bloody dictator from raping and pillaging an innocent country.
That flag represented your mother and father, your sister and brother, your
friends, neighbors, and everyone at home. I wonder what they would say if someone
asked them permission to burn the American flag?
Next, you need a signature from
an immigrant. Their brothers and sisters may still languish in their native land,
often under tyranny, poverty and misery. Or maybe they died on the way here, never
to touch our shores. Some have seen friends and family get tortured and murdered
by their own government for daring to do things we take for granted every day.
For those who risked everything simply for the chance to become an American ...
what kind of feelings do they have for the flag when they Pledge Allegiance the
first time? Go to a naturalization ceremony and see for yourself, the tears of
pride, the thanks, the love and respect of this nation, as they finally embrace
the American flag as their own. Ask one of them if it would be OK to tear up the
flag.
Lastly, you should get the signature of a mother. Not just any mother. You need
a mother of someone who gave their life for America. It doesn't even have to be
from a war. It could be a cop. Or a fireman. Maybe a Secret Service or NSA agent.
Then again, it could be a common foot soldier as well. When that son or daughter
is laid to rest, their family is given one gift by the American people; an American
flag. Go on. I dare you. Ask that mother to spit on her flag.
I wonder what the
founding fathers thought of the American flag as they drafted the Declaration of
Independence? They knew this act would drag young America into war with England,
the greatest power on earth. They also knew failure meant more than just
a disappointment. It meant a noose snugly stretched around their necks. But they
needed a symbol, something to inspire the new nation. Something to represent the
seriousness, the purpose and conviction that we held our new idea of individual
freedom. Something worth living for. Something worth dying for. I wonder how
they'd feel if someone asked them permission to toss their flag in a mud puddle?
Away from family, away from the precious shores of home, in the face of
overwhelming odds and often in the face of death, the American flag inspires those
who believe in the American dream, the American promise, the American vision...
Americans who don't appreciate the flag don't appreciate this nation.
Those who appreciate this nation appreciate the American flag.
Those who fought, fought for that flag.
Those who died, died for that flag.
And those who love America, love that flag. And defend it.
So if you want to desecrate the American flag, before you spit on it or before
you burn it ...I have a simple request. Just ask permission.
Not from the Constitution.
Not from some obscure law.
Not from the politicians or the pundits.
Instead, ask those who defended our nation so that we may be free today. Ask
those who struggled to reach our shores so that they may join us in the American
dream. And ask those who clutch a flag in place of their sacrificed sons and
daughters, given to this nation so that others may be free.
For we cannot ask permission from those who died wishing they could, just once...
or once again ... see, touch or kiss the flag that stands for our nation, the
United States of America...Author Unknown
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