Flag Day June 14th

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In 1999, June 14th marks the 222nd birthday of the U.S. Flag. In 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes pattern for the national flag. This would follow almost one year after the Declaration of Independence and more than a decade before the U.S. Constitution was finalized. Flag Day was first celebrated in 1877, the centennial of the U.S. flag's existence. After that many citizens and organizations advocated the adoption of a national day of commemoration for the U.S. Flag. It was not until 1949, that President Harry Truman signed legislation making Flag Day a day of national observance.

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Our Flag and the Republic for which it stands are in distress. My Flag is proudly up but a tear is in my eye. For it is legitimately downside up.

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
A flag flying upside down is an order for any and all U.S. Military that happens to pass that way to stop and help.


'SURRENDER? I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!"
by Norm Olson (normolson@northlink.net) 2/17/99

IN ANSWER TO: "The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."
"Aren't you going to turn your flag upside down, Norm? . . . Everyone is doing it, why don't you?"

Granted, the nation is in distress. And granted, there is an emergency, but the signal of dire distress is shown when the situation has become hopeless and when life and property are in imminent danger.

Not only is the flag turned upside down when ones control of the situation is gone, but it also indicates that there is hope only in what someone else can do, presumeably someone who can come to the rescue, else why signal distress?

So then, I must ask the question, "Are we in a hopeless situation and are there others who can rescue us?" To both questions I must answer "NO!" I am not yet willing to admit defeat or distress. I am not yet willing to beg someone else to do what I must do. I am not yet willing to signal distress to the world as if showing the world that I regard the situation as "all but lost."

Granted, I may be out-numbered and out-gunned, but when has God ever needed a majority of anything?

Instead, I will fly my bright colors with the stars pointed toward heaven from whence cometh my only strength and help and I will keep the stripe of red at the bottom to signify the other Americans whose blood has saturated this soil.

Surrender to the situation and declare hopelessness to the wondering world?

NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO!

So when they ask Norm Olson if he is going to turn his flag upside down as others have, I will answer as another American did long ago when asked if he would surrender:

"Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!"



Norm Olson, Commander,
Northern Michigan Regional Militia
Pastor, Freedom Church, Wolverine, Michigan
Owner, The Alanson Armory Gun Shop, Alanson, Michigan

I found this and just thought I'd put it here for debate. I don't intend for it to be a flame to you C.R. Sam. I just want to know what the thoughts of others is on this topic.
 
Prehaps we should fly the flag right side up
with an upside down and ripped in half bill of rights sewen on to the bottom quarter
with a hand and a meat clever and upon the blade of the meat cleaver the words
"democrat's gun control.
 
My neighbor is p!$$ed at me.

During our morning walks, we saw a few houses had their flags out for flag day (his didn't).

Most were the kind where the Boy Scouts, for $20 a year, will come around and set one up for you on these holidays.

I told him I had mixed thoughts on that.
"Why?", he said, "it takes the hassle out of remembering when to put up a flag."

I got a little hot, and said that I don't mind supporting the Boy Scouts, but
"automating" patriotism was pretty lame. This "hassle" comes about 6 times a year, and if you can't make the effort to put up a flag on your own, you aren't much of a citizen.

The people who are buried under that flag would love to have that kind of "hassle". Geez!


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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.



[This message has been edited by Oatka (edited June 16, 2000).]
 
Good point. He shouldn't be mad though. He should understand that he is taking his citizenship lightly. He needs to understand that displaying the flag should NEVER be a "hassle".

Way to stand up for what you believe even at the cost of hurting a friendship.
 
Well, I don't know about the rest of you but when I bought my new house in '98 I set out to find a flag pole. All I wanted was a simple, regulation size flag pole like you used to see everywhere years ago. Took me almost 6 months to find a company here in Georgia that still sells them. Had it delivered and promptly set it in concrete right in the middle of my front yard.

My flag flies -everyday- and I think that's the way it should be.

I don't like a lot of the things our government does any more than the rest of you but the flag (to me) is not a symbol of the government I have a problem with.......it is a symbol of the country I have been proud to live in and serve, it is a daily reminder of the people that have sacrificed their lives to defend the freedom we all take for granted.

Every day is flag day at my place.

Joe/Ga
 
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