National Flag Day 2010
Today is National Flag Day, where we honor not just a symbol of our nation but a symbol representing that which is the greatest gift endowed upon mankind by our Creator: Liberty.
Old Glory doesn’t just represent the United States of America. It is, for every man or woman who lives in bondage, under the jackboot of any tyrant or despot, a symbol and a beacon of hope for those who have never known and long for freedom.
The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, 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 through 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 in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh 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 washed 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!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it 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!
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God Bless America!
Obama: Fighting for our enemy and against the American people since day one.
The colors were displayed as I left for work this morning. Along with the exception for Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veteran’s Day we only fly the gadsden flag.
Long live the United States of American and woe to her enemies!
It is also the Army’s 235th birthday.
For me, everyday is flag day. As long as I can still move these old bones the flag goes up every morning and down every night. God bless America and help us save it from the fools that want to destroy it.
We always have the flag flying 24/7. There are two other homes on our block who do the same. God bless America and our military.
L
Thank you Val Prieto and other-I had completely forgot.
Sadly I forgot to put the flag out this morning. Today is also my late Grandfather’s birthday and he was a veteran of WWII so I normally remember. I did however change my profile pic on Facebook to the Flag and linked to National Flag Day site that Val linked to in the posting above. I figured if I forgot to fly the physical flag I would fly it where I could.
Just took a gander at Bing’s, Yahoo’s, and Google’s home pages. Guess what? You’ll be shocked–shocked, I say.
Heck, I don’t even know why I bothered to comment on it.
Thanks for the reminder, Val.
I also fly my flag 24/7. On special occasions like today I fly a somewhat larger flag on my 22′ flagpole. Just because. A number of other homes on my block started flying their flags 24/7 as well. Not as many as there should be but it’s a start. No “Obama 08″ signs in front of those houses, you betcha.
And by the way, has anyone noticed the tribute our friends at Google have for our colors today?
Hint. NOTHING Boycott Google! Use Bing, Ask, anyone but Google!
Hoooah!
Our Flag, Our Country, the best ever…..Without equal…That’s right liberals, without equal…..
It is not only Flag Day it is also the 235th anniversary of the founding of the United States Army.
Happy Birthday US Army!!!!!
As many here, I fly the Flag at both my home & office every day. Sadly, little evidence of it this morning when I left the neighborhood, or on the road. After 9/11, people everywhere flew the Flag proudy, then enthusiasm dropped off. Some say it is just cheap patriotism, but I strongly disagree. Don’t care how often I see it, but always get a thrill to see it fly. The family is going on a vacation soon, & out of the country. It never fails, but whenever we leave like this, the 2 absolute best sites in the world is coming home & seeing the Statue of Liberty, and the Flag.
Thunderstorms this morning, and rain predicted most of the day, so I couldn’t put my flag out before I left.
We have flown the flag every day since September 11, 2001.
Back to the 4th stanza of the National Anthem…has anyone else gotten any of the ‘new’ $1 coins? They no longer include the words ‘In God We Trust’.
Thanks for the reminder, heading now for the closet to find Ol’ Glory. Then we will place it on the proper post in the most respectful manner.
I believe “In God We Trust” is located on the edge of the coin.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLAG!!! It may not seem so, but to our enemies, be advised, we are not GONE from the WORLD SCENE… We are only taking a SHORT NAP…
bigterp–thanks–I looked all over that damn coin.
I posted the Pledge of Allegiance on my Facebook page this morning. Many of my conservative friends have either commented or clicked that they like my status. Oddly, not a single liberal friend has done either.
http://www.usflag.org/flag.day.html
The original Pledge of Allegiance
(extended version)
History of Our Flag:
From the Smithsonian Institute, Making the Flag; and The Legacy of Our Flag.
From the Library of Congress;
Picture Gallery;
An interesting article, about two national flags; one military, and one civil;
…and, remember the story John McCain has told about his POW experience (…in a speech he gave at the 1988 Republican National Convention; and on the 1999-2000 campaign trail).
A devoted business, with many general references (scroll down the page).
Ah, The Pledge of Allegiance……
, The Pledge of Allegiance: A Centennial History, 1892-1992 (Free State Press, 1992). In it one would learn that the author of the Pledge was one Francis Bellamy, a defrocked Baptist minister from Boston who identified himself as a Christian Socialist and who preached in his pulpit that “Jesus was a socialist.”
Bellamy was the cousin of Edward Bellamy, author of the extremely popular 1888 socialist fantasy, Looking Backward. In this novel the main character, Julian West, falls asleep in 1887 and awakens in the year 2000 when the socialist “utopia” has been achieved: All industry is state owned, Soviet style; everyone is an employee of the state who is conscripted at age 21 and retires at age 45; and all workers earn the same income.
Francis Bellamy said that one purpose of the Pledge of Allegiance was to help accomplish his lifelong goal of making his cousin’s socialist fantasy a reality in America. He further stated that the “true reason for allegiance to the Flag” was to indoctrinate American school children in the false history of the American founding that was espoused first by Daniel Webster and, later, by Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln falsely claimed that the states were never sovereign and that the union created the states, not the other way around.
I’ll display a flag, but the pledge….I don’t know!
Ironically, the author of the pledge of allegiance might disagree with our commitment to preserving the prerogatives of state and local governments. Francis Bellamy, the author of the pledge, was a self-described socialist who wished to replace the Founders’ constitutional republic with a strong, centralized welfare state. Bellamy wrote the pledge as part of his efforts to ensue that children put their allegiance to the central government before their allegiance to their families, local communities, state governments, and even their creator!
I think Bellamy’s goal has been pretty much achieved, don’t you?
I fly the “First Navy Jack” 24/7.
Here’s a view of hateful, violent tea party goers showing disdain for the USA and the flag.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bobtea2#p/u/5/oQmO2Zm0Ugs
Fly it with pride.
de Oppresso Liber!
On June 14th, 2010 at 12:59 pm, SFWife said:
Hooah!!!
I can’t check Bing at the moment, but late last night, the photo on Bing was a nice sunset with a Flag Day parade, and the questions when you mouseover were all about Flag Day. For example – Biggest Flag Day parade in the US? Troy, NY according to Bing.
There was talk of rain as I left the house, but it failed to materialize. I went home during my lunch break, though, specifically to put the flag out.
I just had to take my flag down recently-It had flown so long after 911 that it was tattered and worn…Must buy a new one!
I want to thank Fox news for giving our flag honor on Flag Day. I do not know if the other news outlet did, I only watch Fox for fair and balanced.
L
Read a children’s book explaining Flag Day to my kids today, and we went outside together to put out our Stars and Stripes. We talked about how it represents a great gift given to us by God, our liberty in this land, and that those of us who love what it stands for must always protect it.
Yep, same as it was when I checked, AG. Bing does a pretty good job of recognizing most significant dates in America. That’s partly what I was trying to point out. I didn’t mean to imply the wrong thing. Oops. Now I really know that I shouldn’t have bothered.
Late, I know, but here’s Isaac Asimov’s great article about the SSB.
It begins like this: