Posted on 06/14/2007 5:32:10 PM PDT by SandRat
The Long Memory Brigade here at MRC remembered Flag Day with a few reminders we've published in our Notable Quotables newsletter. The Left can easily display their contempt for the American flag. For example, there's this dropping of unpatriotic nastiness from the days right after 9/11 in The Nation:
"My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war. She tells me I’m wrong – the flag means standing together and honoring the dead and saying no to terrorism. In a way we’re both right....[The flag] has to bear a wide range of meanings, from simple, dignified sorrow to the violent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry that has already resulted in murder, vandalism and arson around the country and harassment on New York City streets and campuses." -- The Nation’s Katha Pollitt in a column in the October 8, 2001 edition.
We published another quote from The Nation (one of the year's best in 1991), which referenced the flag, but perhaps more the national anthem:
"Oh say, we've seen too much. The Star-Spangled Banner pushes like a cough through America's mouth and the twilight's last gleaming is just that, a sickly flash above our heads as we ride unsuspecting in the bellies of sleek trains, plop to our knees in churches, embracing truths that disgust us." -- Boston Globe arts critic and "poet" Patricia Smith in The Nation's "Patriotism" issue, July 15/22, 1991.
Flag Day is an almost-forgotten holiday now.
Thanks for the page on flag etiquette, SandRat.
I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. God bless the USA! Wave that flag!
Flag Day was created about 5 miles from where I grew up. :) It was created by a school teacher in Waubeka, WI. His one-room school is still there and is a Flag Day museum now...
Waubeka, in Ozaukee County, not far from my home town. I did not know that.
“The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.”~Woodrow Wilson
...the stars and stripes are symbols, cloth, with stars and bars. I burned five two weeks ago. in private. i’ve talked with folks that say, burn my flag and i will punch you, repeatedly. i asked them how do you dispose of yer flag? “throw it away, in the garbage can” i retorted, you have desecrated the flag, worse than burning it in public. “wwwhat?” yea! burning the flag, even in disrespect is yer right to do. but, don’t try to burn my flag, or my country, we are armed and will defend ourselves, and the stars and stripes, and this nation...
Agreed. Use of the word ‘jingoism’ is one of the surest signs that whoever you’re dealing with is a fifth columnist.
Katha Pollitt is a Communist, period. She despises the United States but lacks the intellectual honesty and moral courage to leave and go live in Cuba.
She and nearly everyone at The Nation are nothing but street rabble and psychological sewage.
Before the fire is begun ashes from all previous campfires and disposal ceremony are placed in the fire ring to add the Scout Spirit and all the Honors of the past to the fire. Then at the end, each Scout collects in a small container the cold ashes to take with them to carry to the next Campfire and keep the Spirit continuous.
We have an adult who was at Ground Zero as a firefighter that collected ashes from there and when he came back added them to a campfire. Now that Spirit honoring those who died on that fateful day at Ground Zero are a part of all our Scout Camp-outs and all proper flag disposal ceremonies.
Many of our boys have moved on with their parent to other parts of the nation and the world to participate in Scouting in their new locale and took their ashes with them to continue the Spirit there.
See Reply #18.
...long time since the scouts, but, i have heard of this ceremony... thanks fer the reminder...
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