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WASHINGTON, June 13, 2006 – While military servicemembers await deployment, some will find inspiration in their mailbox, courtesy of "Project Prayer Flag," a grassroots group that sends servicemembers pocket flags and letters of prayer and encouragement. 4th Infantry Division soldiers near Bayji, Iraq, hold pocket flags they received inside "Project Prayer Flag" kits. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Project Prayer Flag is a member of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, which showcases Americans' efforts to support servicemembers and their families. It's not important how Americans support the troops as long as they support them,...

Nationwide Rally to Stop Illegal Immigration on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at every City HallOn May 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. On July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally and BoycottRally to stop the invasion by millions of illegal aliens. 1-Day boycott...

USA Citizens Day - July 1st Immigration Control Rally Nationwide Rally on Saturday, July 1st, at noon, at your City HallMay 1st - Million of Illegal Aliens Marched in our StreetsTwelve million illegal aliens demonstrated their political power, and declared May 1st to be A Day Without Undocumented Workers ( illegal aliens ). They boycotted the USA, all US businesses and institutions. Millions of them marched in our streets, carried Mexican flags, shouted "Si se puede!", and demanded new laws from our Congress. July 1st - U.S. Citizens Nationwide Rally for Immigration ControlRally to stop our continuous invasion by...

National Anti-illegal Immigration Rally Richmond, IN Coordinator: Gloria Co-Coordinator: Joyce The Rally will be held in front of the Wayne County Courthouse located at 4th and Main Street in Richmond, IN Friday May 5,2006 2:00-6:00 P.M. (carrying flags and signs only today, if you have any info sheets you want to pass out bring them with you) Saturday May 6,2006 12:00-4:00 P.M. (Guess speakers and music) Opening prayer: Rev. Ron Chappel Speakers will be Mr.Greg Serbon from The Ifire group of Indianapolis (Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform & Enforcement) Congressman Mike Pence: pending Singer will be Walt Stoner Of Richmond...

HOUSTON, TX RALLY – Saturday, April 22, 2006 Organized by U.S. Border Watch and Texans for Immigration Reform COME STAND WITH OTHER PATRIOTS TO SAY TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS: “BORDER SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY” “SECURE OUR BORDERS AND ENFORCE OUR LAWS NOW” DATE: Saturday, April 22, 2006 TIME: 11:30 a.m. (set up begins) – 1:30 p.m. LOCATION: Mexican Consulate – 4507 San Jacinto Street, Houston, TX Law enforcement protection will be on site. Parking is available on the street or underneath the SW Freeway (which sits catty corner to the Consulate building). The Mexican Consulate is a multi-story building which...

This week, let's FLOOD Washington with U.S. Flags through the mail showing our strong support of enforcing our current immigration laws.

The display of the Mexican flag in recent immigration demonstrations is, to me and many of my fellow Americans, disturbing, annoying and unpatriotic. A short history fact: Mexico was soundly defeated, fair and square in open combat, by United States military forces in 1846-1848. Therefore, on former Mexican territories the Mexican flag comes down and the American flag goes up — period. It appears to me, and surely millions of my fellow Americans, that patriotism may be becoming a greater issue than immigration reform. —Frank Castillo Jr., Eagle Pass The immigration debate has sparked controversy about border security and illegal...

Shocking photos are now available that link Texas State House District 48 Republican Candidate Don Zimmerman to Senators Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. Don Zimmerman's opponent, Jeff Fleece, has mailed out an attack ad claiming that "Don Zimmerman stood with liberal Democrats like Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton against President Bush". Now the truth can be revealed. On December 5th, 2003, Hillary Clinton came to Austin, Texas to promote her Living History book. We have uncovered evidence that Don Zimmerman was there to greet her as she arrived at BookPeople in downtown Austin. Only a week later on December 12th,...

Many citizens saw what was happening to their nation's flag and took action by showing their pride and flying their flags the right way. At Skyline High School students did the same by bringing them into the school and flying them behind their cars.

I noticed that the LA Raza web site had a large American Flag (flag of the occupation) on it's home page. On the pages devoted to pictures of the demonstrations there was not one Mexican Flag shown but lots of American Flags. I think they got the idea.

Apache Junction High School students went through a Friday steeped in racial tension, confusion and ultimately, a partial reversal by an administrator who tried to calm things down. The day began with emotions high, a day after an incident in which Hispanic students raised a Mexican flag on a school flagpole only to see it taken down and burned by Anglo classmates. A shoving match ensued. On Friday, students wore Mexican and American flags to school as tension between Hispanics and Anglos reached a near-riot pitch, some said. The situation caused Superintendent Greg Wyman to create a new policy: No...

SOMETIMES EVEN MICHELLE MALKIN misses, in THE AMERICAN FLAG COMES SECOND, what's right in front of her eyes. It's understandable that with the disturbing images of misplaced loyalties represented by the much discussed "flag issue" of the last few days, that the real symbol of Mexican illegal immigration goes unremarked. Yet, in one of the pictures on Malkin's site, it's right there in the foreground. It's the Pinata. The pinata is a bright candy-and-toy-filled container (generally suspended on a rope from a tree branch or ceiling) that is used during celebrations. A succession of blindfolded, stick-wielding children try to break...

Freepers cirque23, firebrand, and AliVeritas were among the crowd at the demonstration today in support of freedom at the Danish Consulate. Another freeper was there who forgot his screen name but was part of the DC demonstrations outside Cheney's house in 2000. Juliej could not get out of work until 1, so she missed it, but she did try to stop by.We started assembling at the northwest corner of 47th and Second Avenue. A guy with a Viking helmet, another guy with a Lego sign, a guy with a Danish flag painted on his face, lots of people with signs...

The "FRIENDSHIP (LAPEL) PIN" While commenting on another FR thread this past night/morning, I did a basic search for lapel pins that would show support when worn by us Americans for Denmark, and this is the most interesting result I found, the "Friendship Pin" from a U.S. company ("flagline.com")-- who also sells very well done American flags and many other interesting things. But, as to Denmark items, they offer the Danish flag on cloth, nylon and on dedicated lapel pins, too. I happen to really like this "Friendship Pin," however, and think it really makes the right message.

SIERRA VISTA — His Army outfit thought he was dead, but Al Waller survived five months in a prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War II and was on hand Sunday afternoon to help hoist a POW/MIA Flag, along with a U.S. Flag that once flew over the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. About 50 people gathered for a sun-drenched ceremony in the parking lot of the Sierra Vista Elks Lodge for a ceremony honoring the new flags. Waller was a guest speaker. Sierra Vista Mayor Tom Hessler, commenting on what he considered a small turnout noted...

SummaryAAPABCNationalPhotos Friday January 13, 06:35 PM Aussies encouraged to fly flag 'proudly' The National Australia Day Council wants all Australians to "fly the national flag proudly" as part of this year's Australia Day celebrations. The council's director, Warren Pearson, said Newspoll figures showed 13.5 million Australians were expected to celebrate on January 26, and they should all fly the national flag with pride. "More than 92 per cent of Australians have told us they are proud to be Australian and what better way to celebrate what's great about being Australian than to show the flag," Mr Pearson said. The call...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian authorities suffered a setback Wednesday in their plan to send a 35-member team to drape Egypt's Great Pyramid at Giza with the flags of the world's 57 Muslim countries. The chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, the body responsible for the Giza site, said in Cairo that he would not allow it to be draped. "This cannot take place," chairman Zahi Hawass said. "The pyramid cannot be draped by any person in this world. Nobody is allowed to do this." Malaysia's Defense Minister Najib Razak announced the project during a ceremony Tuesday, when...

Hillary Clinton is co-sponsoring a bill to criminalize the burning of the American flag. Her supporters would characterize this as an attempt to find a middle way between those who believe that flag-burning is constitutionally protected free speech and those who want to ban it, even if it takes a constitutional amendment. Unfortunately, it looks to us more like a simple attempt to have it both ways. Senator Clinton says she opposes a constitutional amendment to outlaw flag-burning. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that flag-burning was protected by the First Amendment. But her bill, which is sponsored by Senator...

AL TAQQADUM, Iraq (Nov. 13, 2005) -- For many, the flag is more than a symbol of the government. It represents the shared values of the people of the United States and their greatest ideal, freedom. The Gunfighters of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 fly this symbol at Al Taqqadum, Iraq, and proudly take it with them in UH-1 Hueys and AH-1 Cobras during combat missions. “Our flag represents pride in what we’re doing here,” said Sgt. David Zubowski, a UH-1 Huey crew chief with the Gunfighters and New Castle, Ind., native. “Looking at our flag, it just reminds...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C., Aug. 3, 2005 – Marines of Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment received pocket American flags here 15 July from Brenda Brummer, a volunteer with the Pocket Flag Project, shortly before deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Brummer folded over three hundred flags for the company by herself then drove six hours to Camp Lejeune to deliver the flags to the deploying Marines. “When I look at the flags I have made I think of the people who have given part or all of their lives for this...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

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Raising the flag raises a flapNorway's military wanted to raise an historial version of the Norwegian flag during centennial celebrations in June. The Foreign Ministry, however, won't allow it, saying the flag used during Norway's unhappy union with Sweden, featuring Swedish colors, can no longer fly on any official Norwegian flag pole.The flag in question sports a mixture of Norwegian red-and-blue and Swedish blue-and-yellow colors in its top left corner. The insignia was commonly known as the sildesalat (herring salad), coined because the colors resembled a herring salad, common on the tables of both countries, which mixes the bluish herring...

Howard Dean and Yankee Democrats don't have a clue what it means to be a Southerner. It's not about Confederate flags. It's about honor, family, self reliance and American patriotism. Who are these Confederate voters that Vermonter Howard Dean wants to represent? Is Jefferson Davis on the ballot again? I thought he was dead, along with the Confederate States of America. Hey, I’m a Southerner, why didn’t I get the memo? Duh, Dean was just being "hisself", a Yankee liberal, describing voters as he sees people – divided by race, class and gender. What a hoot. Liberals imagine identity politics...

Yesterday I happened to be in a shopping area near White Rock Lake in Dallas and I noticed something a little different on a flag pole outside of a Post Office Branch office. Directly under the US Flag there was a black flag of the same size. Although at the moment I noticed it that was barely a breeze and both flags were moving, I recognized this black flag. At least I thought I did but, since I don't recall having seen one hung at a Post Office before, I wanted to make sure. So I stood and watch the...

Please help out the curious. I see so many homepages with nothing on them. Please take a minute to go to your homepage, click "this page can be edited" and post a flag, THANK YOU.

Some weeks ago I wrote here to tell everybody how much the sight of our Nation's flag -flying from interstate bridges and other high-visibility locations all over America-meant to my wife and I in those tormented days right after 9/11. I suggested we put our flags on display again-in remembrance of 9/11,and as a reminder of what this difficult War on Terror is all about.The response to this post was heart-warming. This weekend,my wife and I drove up to New York state along Interstate 287 to attend a "Golden Alumni" get together-(my last,I think)-and I'm happy to report every bridge...

In the September 20 issue of Time Magazine, author David Van Biema/Jackson writes very flippantly about a “Muslims Only” event held at Six Flags in New Jersey. He seems irritated that anyone would raise objections to religious segregation at a public amusement park. Before objections were raised, just how did the event’s organizers, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), plan to enforce Muslim-only entrance to Six Flags? By the way people dressed? By their skin color? Would entrants to the park have been forced to recite verses of the Koran? Were Jews wearing yarmulkes and Christians wearing crucifixes to...

This past weekend marked the third-year anniversary of the day that changed America forever: the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. More than 3,000 people died on that horrible day at work in New York City and Washington, D.C., and in a field in rural Pennsylvania. Although unspeakably terrible, something good did come of the attacks. Almost all Americans, of all political stripes, banded together in a show of unity not seen in nearly 60 years. People stood in line for hours to donate blood. Money, time and love were generously given. There was more respect for the armed services...

battle flag = battle target A supporter of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi plants his flag in the barrel of the 25 mm cannon of a burning U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle at Haifa Street in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Sept. 12, 2004. Fighting broke out early in the morning between U.S. troops and insurgents and lasted for nearly 90 minutes as U.S. soldiers fired from positions behind walls and trees along Haifa Street. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Sun Sep 12, 2:19 AM ET AP Fighting broke out early in the morning between U.S. troops and insurgents and lasted for nearly 90 minutes as U.S....

As hard as it may be to believe, the 9/11 memorial placed on campus here at UT Tuesday night has been vandalized. Apparently, some cowardly and despicable individuals snuck onto the amphitheater Wednesday night and removed all 3,000 flags. They moved them to Humanities Plaza (about 100 yards away) and replanted them, spelling out "The World Suffers." They also chalked various antiwar and anti-Bush slogans on the buildings and on the pavement - in direct violation of University rules. Fortunately, we were on top of this by 8 am. We quickly washed away the libelous cliches, and returned the flags...

Can anyone please post to me a graphic I seen here...it is of 4 flags with Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish signs...says something to the like of United We Stand...or something like that...any other such graphics also very welcome...especially any that show Islam for what it is...thank you.

BostonSOME PARENTS probably had visions of incontinence on long family car trips when Alexandra Kerry promised Thursday night that, should her father become president, our children will be able to "control their own bodies." But if the reference went over the heads of confused Middle Americans, abortion advocates had no trouble recognizing it as a bone thrown their way by the Democratic campaign. Kerry's own challenge to President Bush--"Let's never misuse for political purposes the most precious document in American history, the Constitution of the United States"--will have been received in living rooms across the nation as an insistence that...

Nothing makes me madder than seeing the American Flag on the ground. Today I picked up my tenth car window flag up off of the street from being driven over by dirty tires. I don’t know much about protocol, but I do know that you NEVER let the Flag of the United States EVER touch the dirty ground. I remember when I was younger watching my older brother watch the TV Series Tour of Duty. My older brother was really into military and the Tour of Duty show and there’s one very serious thing that I learned from him is...

I am buying a nice new 20ft flagpole for my property. Do any of you fly two flags at a time with one being the U.S. flag? Is it inappropiate to fly the "Don't tread on me" flag at the same time?

Operation Enduring Support will be held Saturday May 15th at Flag Pole Hill, which is just off of 75 (Central Expressway) at Northwest Highway. It will run from 3 to 6PM and will feature patriotic music, special speakers, a children's area, video messages from those in attendance back to our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as an solemn flag planting event that you WILL NOT want to miss! Many more details will be posted in the next few days so check back to this site soon. If the creep in the picture and audio below can...

The world's flags given letter grades Introduction Some time ago, browsing through my friend's atlas, I realised that there are significant differences in quality between the flags of different countries. Some are good, some are bad. Some countries have clearly taken care in the choice of colours, layout, and design. Others have been lazy, stolen the flags of their neighbours, or just designed flags that are clearly supposed to cause pain to those who look at them. To my surprise, there is no international body responsible for upholding simple standards of vexillilic aesthetics. Nor do the UN or Interpol...

Some time ago, browsing through my friend's atlas, I realised that there are significant differences in quality between the flags of different countries. Some are good, some are bad. Some countries have clearly taken care in the choice of colours, layout, and design. Others have been lazy, stolen the flags of their neighbours, or just designed flags that are clearly supposed to cause pain to those who look at them. To my surprise, there is no international body responsible for upholding simple standards of vexillilic aesthetics. Nor do the UN or Interpol have the power to call in and punish...

St. Cloud VA Medical Center removed all the state flags from its auditorium Monday after a veteran complained three flags featured Confederate symbols. The 46-year-old Coleman said he noticed three flags with Confederate links while he played bingo in the auditorium. He said they were the old Georgia state flag, the Mississippi state flag and a version of the Confederate flag that depicts a white field with a red cross (Alabama). Coleman served in the military from 1980 to 1983. He is staying on the VA Medical Center's campus while he works on turning his life around, he said.

(CNSNews.com) - The first American flag in a Florida state university classroom was unfurled at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Friday afternoon as a result of an effort led by conservative students. "This is a great day for UCF students," said Heather Smith, president of Rebuilding on a Conservative Kornerstone, or ROCK, a student-based group that has been working for months to have the flags placed in the school's classrooms. Smith said it is national emblem of freedom and liberty. However, critics of the plan said the American flags would be used to show political support for...

Attention Atlanta Area!!!Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield park grounds are covered by the 3000 flags (one for each victim of OBL's attack) .... It's an awe-inspiring spectacle well-worth your drive out west of Marietta. TAKE YOUR KIDS !!!! - They'll well remember it. A camera is essential to capture the scene of these flags covering the whole face of the park. From Atlanta: 75 north, to either 41, Barrett Pkwy, or the Kennesaw State Exit. Go west about two miles from I-75, signs are marked. The entire acreage in front of the vistor's center at the Mountain itself is covered.

Don't Commemorate Sept. 11 Fewer flags, please, and more grit. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, September 8, 2003, at 9:30 AM PT Unless I have badly mistaken the mood of everyone I know and almost everyone I meet, practically nobody has any particular use for the second anniversary that will soon be upon us. But it is vaguely felt in many quarters that something ought to be done by way of an observance. The first mentality is in my opinion the right one, even if people feel bad about harboring it, and the second one is defensible but somewhat sickly...

Liberals are suing the village of Montour Falls to stop a project called the Ave of Flags at the SheQuaGa Falls Park. We realize their concern for visual effect,but a majority want the flags and have donated 225.00 each for poles and flags. Enemies of the project have twisted all the facts and made the project into a horror story. The are attempting to discredit a enviormental statement the parks dept required. They want the flags "stuffed into some other corner" in other words you can put your flags where we want them. Flags will have a brick at the...

Editorial Second Thoughts By: William W. Lawrence 08/05/2003 There is an important undertaking going on in Marple and Newtown Townships. The Marine Corps League, American Legion and VFW have joined the Marple Parks Department and USPS for a flag depository project which brings five mailboxes to the Marple and Newtown communities. The boxes sport handsome stars and stripes and the veterans' organization logos. They are marked "Flags Only" to discourage other items such as eyeglasses from being dropped in these special receptacles. I would like to see this enterprise take wings and spread through the rest of Delaware County. Old...

I'm just coming back from Normandy and still have to unpack, but I wanted to offer you a new game to play, particularly if you're in for a D-Day tour this summer. If you planned it, you may want to cancel your visit to the Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie (Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy) in Bayeux. Unless you would like to play this game, I told you about.

While Israel Radio reported that while the streets of Aqaba are decorated today with the flags of Jordan, U.S. and the PLO/PA, Jordan declined to put Israeli flags in the streets. Amir Weiss, the spokesman of the Israeli Embassy in Amman, took an upbeat tone in an interview on Israel Radio, noting that Israeli flags were inside the king's palace in Aqaba for the meeting. At 9:47 AM Israel Radio pointed out it is becoming embarrassing that the Jordanians have yet to permit the Israeli flag to be displayed at the press center.

Second Thoughts By William W. Lawrence 05/14/2003A snappy salute to former Marine Corps Sgt. Roger Gibbons who acquired 80 American flags to be flown in Upper Chichester. Gibbons, who owns and operates the Gibbons Insurance Agency in the township, was watching the war on television when the idea came to him. The Korean War vet decided his town did not look patriotic enough. He made a deal with Tom Ferro, president of the Upper Chi Board of Commissioners. Gibbons would get the flags if the township would put them up. Ferro, a friend of Gibbons, agreed. Beautiful American flags are...

News Release: Immediate Release April 3, 2003 OPERATION: 12,000 FLAGS Saturday April 12, 2003, will be celebrated as an early flag day by citizens of the Roanoke Valley. This event will be celebrated by distribution of American Flags and Yellow Ribbon at Tanglewood Mall. This event sponsored by Lakeland Masonic Lodge # 190 and is organized in support of our American Fighting Men and Women now in the Iraqi conflict. In support of this effort, the Freemasons of the Roanoke Valley will give away 12,000 American Flags and a mile of yellow ribbon at Tanglewood Mall beginning at 9:00 AM...

Please join us at the Exeter bandstand (or one of the adjacent corners of Front and Water Streets) at 5pm on Friday evening, April 11, 2003 for a Patriot Rally to support our troops and President Bush.

Court fight rages over 'illegal' flag April 5, 2003 BY STEWART WARREN At the Wesmere subdivision in Joliet, a flag isn't always a flag. Sometimes it's "tasteful holiday trim." Or a banner. Sound confusing? It can be. Particularly for Donna Guinta. In fall 2001, Guinta, who lives in Wesmere, decided to hang an Air Force flag on the front of her garage. Moved by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, her son Jon Guinta had joined the Air Force. Guinta displayed the flag to honor his patriotism. But the Wesmere homeowners association has a set of rules governing the display of...