[roses of sharon]

(I saw this posted on another board)

I have a good friend at work whose husband went to the Washington Tea Party this week-end. She told me that he was getting ready to head out to DC last week, and went to a local Dollar General to buy some American Flags. He ran into a couple of elderly ladies who wondered why he was buying those flags, and he told them where he was getting ready to head out to. One of the ladies was using a walker, and she began to cry, and the other one went to the back of the store where the flags were shelved, took all the remaining ones off the shelf, and went to the check-out line to buy them all and give them to him. The cashier also, upon hearing what my friend’s husband was doing, pitched in, and so those 3 people together bought out the store’s entire stock of American flags and gave them to my friend’s husband. He left, with the back of his pick-up filled up with American flags to take to Washington, purchased with the good will and strong sentiment of three utterly random American citizens. I am confident that every person at the event can be held to have represented at least 3 additional Americans, who could not be there.

This is a true story. I’m confident that it’s not unique among the stories of this Tea Party. It’s a story that Mr. Obama and his minions, and the Democrats in Congress, would do well to heed. I think the American people are not going to sit still for what they see coming. I wasn’t so sure about this a couple of months ago, but I’m seeing something surprising: The American people are not going to submit. God grant us all that they (we) never will.

[NautiNurse]

Beautiful story, thanks for posting it.

[FrankR]

I would like to see the type of display of the flags that we saw after September 11, 2001. There were flags everywhere, on cars, buildings and private homes.

This could be the symbol of those of us who were unable to make it to D.C. I just found my two flags that clip onto my car windows and I'm going back into post 9/11 mode.

We made world news with the flag display showing our solidarity then, and we can do it now to show our solidarity against the encroaching socialist government that is trying to take us over.

[happygrl]

The American people are not going to submit. God grant us all that they (we) never will.

Amen.

Bless you, dear.

[Windflier]

What a wonderful story, Sharon.

This is the sort of heartwarming story that we once saw printed in our mainstream newspapers, or the Reader’s Digest. It makes your heart swell with pride just to read something like this.

You’re right that Obama and his minions need to pay close attention to what most Americans are feeling (and doing!). The tide has turned, and it is building into a tsunami of patriotic demand to return our country to its constitutional basics.

Great post.

[1035rep]

Wonderful story, thanks for sharing it with us.