Fly your flag with pride.

I was driving today out to Reston to my favorite establishment. The Buffalo Wing Factory man they got good food, but anyway back to what I was saying. I have XM radio and I was surfing like three different talk show radio channels, and I came across the Factor on Fox News Radio and I heard a news story unlike anything that I have heard on the news. There are people apparently that do not want to fly the American flag. For various reasons, none of which that sound very good, but they do indeed.

So you gotta ask yourself? Do you fly the flag? Do take pride in the flag? People were calling in to voice their opinion on why they don’t fly the flag. One man said that It is just a pointless symbol and it is better to be informed than to fly the flag. Ummmm ok yea that does not make sense to me. I see his logic (if you can call it that) but I don’t agree. The flag is a symbol yes, but it seems that people are forgetting what that means. I will get to that in a sec. first I want to say one more reason why people don’t want to fly the flag with pride.

People say that if they fly the flag or wear a lapel pin or anything like that, that they are agreeing with the current policy, and things that are happening in the country, that they are taking a stand. Well yea you are, a stand FOR AMERICA! You know that great country that we live in that allows us to say what we want. That allows us to have freedoms that many around the world can only dream of. We live in one of the greatest nations in the world. Sure we have things that we can improve on. What country does not? There are times when we don’t agree with what is going on, but the flag is a symbol of our freedoms, and the price that was paid to have all 50 wonderful states. (Even if some of them are kind of flat and dull) and not the current presidents policy on immigration, or foreign policy.

There are other aspects of this, and some of them I really don’t want to get into here. But they varied from Slavery, to the war in Iraq, to taxes. All I gotta say is the flag is a symbol of our great nation. When things are tough we should fly it proudly.

I leave you now with a picture that I took, and a quote about the flag that I really like. but before you look at it as yourself a question. Is it really just a flag? Or is it something more?

Click the link to see the picture. It is too large for the blog. ~~~~> Here. for the full size, but below is a smaller size, however it is hard to see the text.