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Rainbow pride flag replaces POW/MIA flag at veterans memorial plaza — and public outcry is ignited
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ ^ | June 19, 2019 | Dave Urbanski

Posted on 06/27/2019 9:12:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

Veteran John "Bill" Williams recalled to WRC-TV that he was in Vietnam just six days before two fellow service members were shot down, declared missing in action, "and they still haven't found their bodies."

Such losses are why the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in Rockville, Maryland, means so much to Williams.

Image source: WRC-TV video screenshot And it's also why he was upset that the plaza's POW/MIA flag was replaced with an LGBTQ rainbow flag for pride month, the station said.

"I wasn't happy about it at all because the park is supposed to be a veterans park," Williams told WRC. "People died. Now they took it down and put another flag up."

He added to the station, "If they want to put the other flag underneath, they could put it underneath, but the POW flag should be flying there."

What's the background?

It was the first time a rainbow pride flag flew at the Veterans Memorial Plaza, which is outside the Montgomery County executive office building, WRC said.

Montgomery County Council member Evan Glass, the council's first LGBTQ member, helped celebrate the raising of the pride flag last week, the station added.

But WRC noted that the flag switch ignited public outcry — and Glass said things would be smoothed over.

"The flag post was only able to accommodate one flag, and when we learned of that, we are quickly, the county government, is quickly changing it," he told the station. "So we're adding more ringlets so that by tomorrow morning both flags will be raised."

The POW/MIA flag indeed was raised again as the rainbow pride flag continued to fly, County Executive Mark Elrich told WRC.

The rainbow flag will be up during June for pride month, the station said, while the POW/MIA flag will fly permanently.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; maryland; rockville; veterans
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To: NKP_Vet
There are so many insults to normal people that love America, we can't list all of them in a reasonable amount of time. What we can state right now is America is finished as a superpower if we don't hold the WH and Senate and then overturn the Dem House. There is NO room for error now. No matter what subject matter we want to discuss right now, the MAJORITY of the country has decided that America is to go to the wastebasket of history. Defense budget- cut it and give the money to illegals. Economy- tax anybody with a job and give it to illegals. Trade- enrich fascist governments with our money until we are a 3rd world entity. Abortion- kill all the babies possible up to and including the elderly on feeding tubes. Sodomy- turn your children over to them to "break them in" to the facts of life in Sodom and Gomorrah. Climate- no cars, no fossil fuels, no jobs, no travel, whatever it take to make the US behind China and India. Gun control- well, I think most of us understand the final solution for this.

There is a prophesy on the internet from a man named Kim Clement that predicted Trump back in 2007 and 2014 and said he would get 2 terms. Even if that proves true, that means we have a delay of 6 years before self destruction takes place. Bezos owns the W post, Zuckerberg owns FaceBook, and Twitter, Microsoft, and Youtube are all owned by uber liberals. All of the media, even FNC, are, for an example, trumpeting stories like replacing flags at embassies and veterans buildings with the LBGT rainbow flag.

In case you think I'm exaggerating the importance of this, Jesus said He would return to judge the earth as it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the days of Lot. The days of Noah refer to corrupting the image of God. Could that refer to DNA editing and making men into women? Of course even the dullest knife in the drawer knows what Lot has to do with this prophesy. 5 cities in the valley of Sodom were totally destroyed, no survivors save Lot and family. God killed everyone on earth that breathed save Noah and family. God has made it plain what He thinks of the behavior we are exhibiting right now.

For many of us this story is just another story in a long line of news that disappoints us lately, but in the big picture of history,.... history is about to end. 2 Chron 7:14 is the answer, but even many conservatives don't pray, or attend church, or even believe the Bible at all.

I would suggest anyone upset by this story start to read their Bibles and repent in prayer. God knows the end from the beginning and has predicted that these days are the Last Days. What are the odds, of the churches coming together to pray and repent so God can heal our land? Churches today are marrying sodomites and protecting sodomites raping the church's children. They are protecting illegals and terrorists while they take prayer from schools, take God out of culture, back baby killers, and follow Godless Communist practices that have murdered over 200 million people in the 20th century alone. They will kill babies and set murderer's free. Scripture calls this calling evil good; and good evil. In Romans 1, Paul calls this having a Debased or Reprobate mind. They think they are wise but have become fools. The first sign of a reprobate mind is homosexuality.

As we stand on the knife edge of history, just know that one more voting cycle may be all we have to live and raise our families in something that doesn't resemble Syria. You may say I will fight this, but just know your children will not be able to fight it any more than they can opt out of homosexual training in school, complete with putting condoms on cucumbers for practice. The collapse of a civilization is never pretty and we are there, right now. Kicking the can down the road has finally met the end of the road. When you can't watch a commercial without 2 men kissing, just know how hard it will be to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Not gonna happen!

We all might fool ourselves into thinking we have more time, but anyone with common sense can see that this is it for time. The Bible calls this knowing the times and the seasons. It's not talking about Thanksgiving coming up.

41 posted on 06/27/2019 10:30:56 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: NKP_Vet; Al

Put these around when that’s displayed
This posting by FR’s says it best and when printed up makes a good bumper sticker or poster;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749188/posts/#40
it reads CELEBRATE PERVERSITY each word is against a rainbow background. I suggest adding VOTE PERVOCRAT when you print it up and place that below the two words.celebrate, perversity.


42 posted on 06/27/2019 10:31:15 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: HangnJudge
I'm not flying their flag.

The Authorities , The Powers-That-Be, or however they are referred to, in my opinion, do support and give their allegiance to the perverse and degenerate and they choose these above all others.

43 posted on 06/27/2019 10:36:35 AM PDT by sport
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To: NKP_Vet

This total BS, is the result of the fools involved in the lies of political correctness and the snowflakes of the left that don’t care about our Constitutional Republic, and want to disrespect and demean our Armed Forces and the soldiers that have fought, died and been wounded to allow these POS’s to cause us even more pain and suffering while disparaging our Military People.


44 posted on 06/27/2019 10:41:34 AM PDT by RollingThunder (Liberals = Lackadaisical Idiotic Bitter Egregious Radical Aggressive Losers Society.)
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To: BenLurkin
From a different article:

Montgomery County Council member Evan Glass, the council's first LGBTQ member, helped celebrate the raising of the pride flag Monday morning at Veterans Memorial Plaza in Rockville.

So, Glass and the rest of the council I imagine...are responsible

45 posted on 06/27/2019 10:44:06 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: NKP_Vet

1000 Vets should show up and tear down the gay banner. Make a spectacle of it.


46 posted on 06/27/2019 10:45:31 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Mentally ill f****s


47 posted on 06/27/2019 10:46:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Montgomery County Council member Evan Glass, the council's first LGBTQ member, helped celebrate the raising of the pride flag last week... "The flag post was only able to accommodate one flag, and when we learned of that, we are quickly, the county government, is quickly changing it," he told the station. "So we're adding more ringlets so that by tomorrow morning both flags will be raised."
Since it a Vietnam veterans memorial, A) the Fag Flag doesn't belong there in the first place, and B) if he wants it up there, he needed to make sure that "more ringlets" were installed beforehand. He's unfit for whatever office he may occupy. Thanks NKP_Vet.

48 posted on 06/27/2019 11:10:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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This just turned me against thepeople gay pride movement. Before this I was let bygones be bygones. Not any more!


49 posted on 06/27/2019 11:40:52 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: NKP_Vet

While it is surreal to witness the ungodly depravity of humanity ... we are warned what would come... ‘Pride’ was the downfall of the ‘evening star’, and he has already been sentenced to death. Does not make it any easier to watch the most blessed nation in the whole of history to flip the Creator the international finger.


50 posted on 06/27/2019 11:44:05 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: NKP_Vet

Celebrating mental illness.


51 posted on 06/27/2019 12:18:30 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Innovative
Who allowed this? It is an outrage.

My guess would be that HRC had a lot to do with this.


52 posted on 06/27/2019 12:26:45 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: JBW1949

This is an act of cultural domination. Their political symbols must be everywhere and everyone else scared to speak up to create the false illusion it is universally accepted and supported.

In the name of love, no one shall be excluded or allowed to disagree.


53 posted on 06/27/2019 1:02:34 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Yeah...We are allowing 4-5% of the population to dominate the other 95-96%...
Sickening...


54 posted on 06/27/2019 1:14:17 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: tbw2

It’s also happening at VA hospitals all over the country and the queer lovers that run the hospitals, 99% never having served a day in uniform could care less how upset vets are.


55 posted on 06/27/2019 8:30:31 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness”)
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