So our local newspaper had an article in it this weekend about the American flag and some of the "myths" surronding it. I was shocked to find that it is not against law to burn our flag, but that it is elligal to wear a flag t-shirt! It is elligal to sell, wear, or use anything that has an American flag on it. For example: a t-shirt, a beach towel, a lawn chair, or even a hat. I don't understand how an American can be allowed to burn our American flag in protest, but are not allowed to wear the American flag in celebration. The newspaper did go on to say that the whole not being allowed isn't ever really enforced as it is just too hard to... that it is just more of a guide line for how to treat our flag. It still confuses me that we are allowed to burn our flag though. If they think that wearing it is disrepectful, how is burning it not? Personally I think anyone who burns our flag should be thrown in jail... but that's just me.
Well, today we celebrate our nations freedom... as it goes down the drain! If Obama or one of his lackies gets into the White House next, I seriously fear for our freedom. All those years of sacrifice and hard work by the American people and by our military men and women will all be for nothing. So celebrate as hard as you can, 'cause you never know when it will become "politcally incorrect" or "offensive" for us to celebrate our nation and our freedom. Or maybe for once the American people should get off their lazy butts and stand up for what it important and real. Maybe this independance day we should re-establish that we want our freedom. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-- Francis Scott Key
*some of this information provided by The Journal Gazette (section A). Marc Leepson. 5 Myths about: The Flag*
Well, today we celebrate our nations freedom... as it goes down the drain! If Obama or one of his lackies gets into the White House next, I seriously fear for our freedom. All those years of sacrifice and hard work by the American people and by our military men and women will all be for nothing. So celebrate as hard as you can, 'cause you never know when it will become "politcally incorrect" or "offensive" for us to celebrate our nation and our freedom. Or maybe for once the American people should get off their lazy butts and stand up for what it important and real. Maybe this independance day we should re-establish that we want our freedom. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-- Francis Scott Key
*some of this information provided by The Journal Gazette (section A). Marc Leepson. 5 Myths about: The Flag*
No comments:
Post a Comment