THE OLD GLORY

[Cee-gar Man US Marine]

I AM THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MY NAME IS -"OLD GLORY".

I FLY ATOP THE WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDINGS,

I STAND WATCH IN AMERICA'S HALLS OF JUSTICE.

I FLY MAJESTICALLY OVER THE GREAT INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING.

I STAND GUARD WITH THE GREATEST MILITARY POWER IN THE WORLD.

LOOK UP!-AND SEE ME! I STAND FOR PEACE-HONOR-TRUTH-JUSTICE, I STAND FOR FREEDOM.

I AM CONFIDENT-I AM ARROGANT,-I AM PROUD.

WHEN I AM FLOWN WITH MY FELLOW BANNERS, MY HEAD IS HELD A LITTLE HIGHER,-MY COLORS A LITTLE TRUER...I BOW TO NO ONE!

I AM RECOGNIZED ALL OVER THE WORLD. I AM WORSHIPED-I AM SALUTED-I AM RESPECTED, I AM REVERED-I AM LOVED, AND I AM FEARED!

I HAVE FOUGHT IN EVERY BATTLE IN EVERY WAR, FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS: GETTYSBURG, SHILOH, APPOMATAX, SAN JUAN HILL, THE TRENCHES OF FRANCE, THE ARGONNE FORREST, ANZIO, ROME, THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY, THE JUNGLES OF GUAM, OKINAWA, TARAWA, KOREA, VIETNAM, IN THE HEAT OF THE PERSIAN GULF, AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND SCORES OF PLACES, LONG FORGOTTEN BY ALL, BUT THOSE WHO WHERE THERE WITH ME,...I WAS THERE.

I LED MY SAILORS AND MARINES-I FOLLOWED THEM,-I WATCH OVER THEM,-THEY LOVE ME.

I WAS ON A SMALL HILL ON IWO JIMA, I WAS DIRTY BATTLE WORN AND TIRED,...BUT MY SAILORS AND MARINES CHEERED ME, AND I WAS PROUD!

I HAVE BEEN SOILED, BURNED, TORN AND TRAMPLED OF THE STREETS OF COUNTRIES THAT I HAVE HELPED SET FREE.

IT DOES NOT HURT,...FOR I AM INVINCIBLE.

I HAVE BEEN SOILED, BURNED, TORN AND TRAMPLED ON THE STREETS OF MY OWN COUNTRY, AND WHEN IT IS DONE BY THOSE WHOM I HAVE SERVED IN BATTLE WITH,...IT HURTS. BUT I SHALL OVERCOME...FOR I AM STRONG!

I WILL NEVER COWER BEFORE ANY MASTER NOR BEND TO ANY THREAT.

I HAVE SLIPPED THE SURLY BONDS OF EARTH AND FROM MY VANTAGE POINT ON THE MOON, I STAND WATCH OVER THE UNCHARTED NEW FRONTIERS OF SPACE.

I HAVE BEEN A SILENT WITTNESS TO ALL OF AMERICA'S FINEST HOURS.

I HAVE FLOWN OVER THE TOP OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND PENTAGON, AND AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, I HAVE FLOWN OVER ITS RUBBLE TO REMIND THE EVIL IN OUR WORLD THAT MY SPIRIT WILL NOT BE CRUSHED.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NOT BE BROKEN.

BUT MY FINEST HOUR COMES WHEN I AM TORN INTO STRIPS, TO BE USED AS BANDAGES FOR MY WOUNDED COMRADES ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE,...WHEN I FLY HALF MAST TO HONOR MY SAILORS AND MARINES,...AND...WHEN I LIE IN THE TREMBLING ARMS OF A GRIEVING MOTHER, AT THE GRAVE-SIDE OF HER FALLEN SON OR DAUGHTER,...I AM PROUD...MY NAME IS "OLD GLORY",...LONG MAY I WAVE.

[Eastbound]

Thanks for the post, Cee-gar Man, and thank you for your service to our country.

Here's a post-script you may like.

[WoodstockCat]

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

[ZULU]

O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd 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!


"America" is watered down drivel compared with The National Anthem based on a great event in our Second War of Independence. "America" is the National Anthem of the politically correct. No bombs, shooting, or any of the essentials that go along with any successful struggle for freedom against a tyrant.

Just my thoughts.

[devolve]

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[Chieftain]

Hey, Gunny! Thanks for posting the great poem about Old Glory. Welcome home, Devil Dog!

From your brother in the Corps, Semper Fi!

[Happy2BMe]

You know what really hurts "Old Glory" in these times?

It's when our returning soldiers after having known and seen their beloved comrades-in-arms bravely and selflessly die on foreign fields in the defense of this Great Nation only to return to it and find it under an unarmed invasion with Old Glory's stewards simply looking the other way.

This has been told to me by more than one returning soldier.

It stings to the core.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[anticommunist8]

"Unfortunately, we are just as guilty of the Utopian heresy as other nations--perhaps moreso. After all it was our president Wilson who destroyed Christendom in his quest to "make the world safe for democracy.""

I agree, but let's not forget Roosevelt who tried to turn this country into a socialist s***hole and awarded Eastern Europe to mass raping communists.

[anticommunist8]

It's a tactic of the left to say things like "The Nazis were patriotic, so Republicans are Nazis." How often do we here rightists saying, "Hitler was a vegetarian, so caring about animal rights is for Nazis." Not that I agree with the standard right position about the issue of animal rights (you could call me a liberal as far as that's concerned, I guess), but you see my point.

It's such a cheap strategy by using the historical stock villain - Nazis.

Roosevelt set the ball a-rolling when he replaced the original Bellamy salute (incidintally also the civilian salute of the Nazis) for the Pledge of Allegiance with the effete hand-over-heart salute. The beginning of Orwellian redefinition of culture.

[potlatch]

You're 'up and flying' again!!

[DocRock]

The Scars and Strips

Click the Picture to Listen



In God We Trust (.wma file) and I Love America Medley (.wma file)

Freepmail me if you want Instrumental Just in case you want to sing them at your
Church on Memorial Day, July 4 or Veteran's Day...

[sheik yerbouty]

That picture deserves an "Allahu fubar!".

"What is best in life?" To crush the jihadists, to drive their collaborators before you, and to hear the lamentations of their mullahs!

[hiredhand]

Yep...I hear ya! The soldier in the photo is a rare individual too. Back around 1995 or so, he was at my house visiting. We didn't know each other very well at the time. He was driving a Harley Sportster 1200. I like Harley's and I commented on his nice bike. He tossed me the keys and INSISTED that I take it for a ride!

He's just like that. ;-) The funny thing is that I can hear his voice saying, "Allahu fubar!" through that big grin in the picture. :-)

[sheik yerbouty]

LOL!