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STARS AND STRIPES FLAG
FOLDING CEREMONY
By Peggy Carter
--wife of a Viet Nam Vet who is Retired Army and the daughter of a WWII Vet--

The Flag Folding Ceremony represents the same religious principles in which our
Country was originally founded.

The portion of the flag denoting honor is the canton of blue
containing the stars representing states our veterans served in uniform.
The canton field of blue dresses from left to right, and only is inverted when
draped as a pall on a casket of a veteran who has served our country honorably in uniform.

In the evening, in the armed forces of the United States, at the ceremony of re-treat after
Taps have been sounded,the flag is lowered and folded in a triangle fold,
and kept under watch throughout the night as a tribute to our nation's honored dead.
The next morning it is brought out, at lie ceremony of Reveille,
and run up aloft as a symbol of our belief in the resurrection of the bodly.

*The First fold of our flag is a symbol of life.

*The Second fold is a symbol of our belief in the eternal life.

*The Third fold is made in honor and rememberance of the veteran departing our ranks
whom gave of a portion of life for the defense of our country to attain peace
throughout the world not to have been in vain and shall never be forgotten.

*The Fourth fold represents our weaker nature; for as American citizens trusting in
God, for it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in times of war for His Divine guidance.

*The Fifth fold is a tribute to our country; for in the words of the immortal Stephen Decatur.
"Our country; in dealing with other countries, may she always be right,
but it is still our country, right or wrong."

*The Sixth fold for this is where our hearts lie - and it is with our hearts that we
pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic to which
it stands, one Nation under God indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

*The Seventh fold is a tribute to our armed forces; for it is through these same armed
forces that we protect our country and our flag against all the enemies, whether they
be found within or without the boundaries of our republic.

*The Eighth fold is a tribute to the One who entered into the valley of the shadow of
death, that we might see the light of day; and this fold is made to honor -Mother, for
whom it flies on Mother's Day.

*The Ninth fold is a tribute to our womanhood; for it has been through their faith, love, loyalty,
and devotion that the characters of the men that have made this country great have been molded.

*The Tenth fold is a tribute to Father,
for he too has given of his sons for the' defense of our country, since she was firstborn.

We fold from the stripes toward the stars;
for whereas the stripes represent the thirteen original colonies that founded our republic,
and they are now embodied in the fifty sovereign states represented by the stars,
so that the stars cover the stripes.

*The eleventh fold for in the eyes of a Hebrew citizen,
this represents the lower portion
of the seal of King David and King Solomon,
and glorifies in their eyes the God of Abraham.
The God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

*The Twelfth fold for in the eyes of a Christian citizen, this represents an emblem of
eternity and glorifies in their eyes God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost

When the Flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost, which reminds us of our national motto,
"IN GOD WE TRUST."

*After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat,
ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington,
and the sailors and marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones;
and they, followed by their comrades and shipmates in the armed forces of The United States,
have preserved for us the rights, privileges, and freedom which we are enjoying today.

Top Ten Movies Playing In Afghanistan and More!

10. "Sleepless In Jalalabad"

9. "Throw Osama From The Train"

8. "Pretty Woman And Her Brutal Death By Stoning"

7. "Singing In The Reign Of Terror"

6. "There's Something About Christiane Amanpour"

5. "Riding In Cars With Boys Is Forbidden"

4. "Seven Brides For One Brother"

3. "When Harry Met A Veiled Woman He Assumed Was Sally"

2. "Osama, Where Art Thou?"

1. "Glitter"

11. Bridge Over the River's Gone.

2001: A Base Odyssey

2001: A Taliban Odyssey

20,000 leagues under the mountain

2000BC

A Streetcar Named Repress Your Desire

"A Mullah and a Gentleman"

A Streetcar Named Oblivion

Arsenic and Old Anthrax

"All in the Fatwah"

"All Beheadings Considered"

A Rumor of Retreat

All Dancing is Dirty Dancing!

All About Ibrahim

"Ali's Quiet on the Khyber Pass"

All's quiet on the Khyber Pass

Afghanistan Burning

A Hard Day's Carpet Bombing

Along Came a Spy Plane

Afghanistan Burning

An American in i sharif

A Camel Under the Influence

Apocalypse Now

All dying on the western front

Al Qaeda on the Western Front

"A Farewell to Arm"

Batman re-runs

"Buffy, The Yankee Imperialist Dog Slayer"

Bridge on the river Khyber

"Bin Laden in the Attic by 72 Virgins and Now I'm Tuckered Out"

Being There, The Sequel: Not Being There Anymore

Body Heat Sensors

Bring Me the Head of OBL

Back to the Torture

Bin Laden on a Hot Tin Roof

"Bloody in the Sand"

Bin hurt

Battlefield Earth

Blown Up in 60 Seconds

Bent and stumpy

"Cave Improvement"

"Cave by Cave" (compare to "Room by Room")

"Children Are Forbidden From Saying The Darndest Things"

"Camel-Week"(weekly vehicle review)

"Cave Improvements"

Camel Driver

Close Encounters of the Rumsfeld Kind

Crouching Mullah, Hidden'sama

Casablamo

Citizen Caned

Cat on a Hot Mud Roof

Dances not Permitted with Wolves;

Das Burkha

"DEAD MEN WALKING" or
"DEAD MEN RUNNING"

Dude, Where's My Cave?

Dude, Where's My Camel?

"Documentary: Gray Davis", how to tell the difference between power outages caused by incompetence and carpet bombing...

"Dead Mullahs Society"

Die in Lard.

Dead Muslims Society

"Documentary: Beatdown", best ways to make females grovel.

"Dodge-Bomb"

"Dr. StrangeLove", or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Taliban's view on sex

"Driving Miss Daisy Cutter"

Death Space Nine

Dances with goats

Desert Trek --- The Wrath of Khan

Dropping Mrs Daisy Cutter

Erin Burqa Witch

Enslaving Private Ryan

EC (= Emergency Country)

Fatima Foop

F-16's Flew Over Bin Laden's Nest

Full Metal Turbin

Force Ten from Crawford

From Russia With Love

"Flying Camelnecks"

Fist full of Burkhas

For a few Rupees more

"Feetwatch"

"Friends", starring Bill & Hillary, Yasser, Saddam, and cameos by Mommahdar K.

Francis the Talking Mullah

Field of Screams

Gone With the Wind

Guess who's coming to win here

How Beige was my Valley

"Helen Keller: My ideal Woman, by Osama Bin Laden"

Honey I Shrunk the Kid Goats!

Hairy Plotter

Harry Potter, Stoned for Being a Wizard

Heaven's Gate

"How the West Won"

Indiana Jones and the Fast crusade

I know what you did last Jihad!

I STILL Know what you did last Jihad!

"I remember Osama"

It's a Wonderful Death

I dream of TV

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Mullah

Indiana Jones and Another Crusade of Infidels

"I STILL Know What You Did Last Ramadan"

Just Bomb Me

Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Last of the Mohamads"

Liar Liar

Long Day's Journey into Pakistan

Last Year at Jalalabad

Last of the Taliban

Monday Night Footless Ball

Mutiny for the $5,000,000 Bounty

Mullah Abdulla's Laboratory

My Favorite Wives

Miss Saigon but Hit Kabul

Mourning Becomes Everyone

"Mullah Salami Meets Howard's End [a CNN original]"

My Blue Burqa

Men in Burqas

Meet Osama Doe!

"My Twenty-three Sons"

"Mashed to Pieces Theater"

"MATMAN"

"Married, With Camels"

"Mad At You"

"Married with Harem"

"Mohammed Gump"

My Best Friend's Stoning

Men in Burqas

More Than One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Cave

Mazar-i-Sharif Poppins

My Scared Lady

Muhhamad Atef - The Right Stiff

No Sound of Music

National Geographic Explorer special "The Caves of Bin Laden, starring Geraldo Rivera"

"No Left Foot"

No Futurama

"No-witness News

"Never on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday"

Ordinary Sheep-pals

One Red Burqa

"Osama's Cave World, starring Geraldo Rivera" on Public Access TV channel 39.

Oh, Allah!

Oh, Allah! - Book 2

Popeye the Taliban

Pulp Faction

Power Puff Planes

Poke the man

Pure Hell for Osama

Planet of Dirty Terrorists Who Smell Like Apes

Planes, Helicopters, and Cruise Missiles

"Pretty Goat"

Rapidly, Last Ramadan

Raging kabul

Reservoir Goats

"Returning Glass to Sand"

Run Silent, Run Deep (in those caves!)

Rats

Riding in Cars with Bombs

Radiation Burn treatment tips by the Weather Channel

Silence of the Goats

Scent of a Burka

"Sand Grit"

"Send Me No B-52s"

Silence of the Goats

Sands of Khyber Pass

Suddenly Last Summary Execution

Survivor (Plot twist: You WANT to be voted out!)

Saturday Night Hemorrhagic Fever

"Seven B-52's for Seven Mullahs"

The Postman Always asks for Cipro Twice

The Bombed Out Bridges of Madison County

The Usual Suspects

The Fast and the Furious Retreat

The Sound of Rocket-Propelled Grenade Launchers

The Xed-Files

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

The Phantom Menace

The Smelly, The Bad, and THe Ugly

The Dead Suicidal Patriot

The Preacher's Wife will be tried for Apostasy

THe Quiet man can be made to scream

the death of a nation

The Goats of Wrath

The Fugitive

The Discreet Charm of the AC-130

The Incredible Shortness of Being

The Guns of Kabul

The Fighting Bin-Ladens

The Seven Camel Jockeys

"THE X-FATWAS"

"The Invisible Men"

"The Liars Clubbed"

"The Texas Boxcutter Massacre"

"The Price is Right If Osama Says It's Right"

"The Taliban's Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers"

The Perfect Storm Trooper

The Unbearable Heaviness of Bombing

the silence of the afgans

The king and I are in Exile

That Twelfth Century Show

The Flight-school Graduate

The Grinch Who Stole Ramadan

Tombs of Internment

Take Me To Kabul (Abdul)

Three Days of the Kandahar

Terminator B52: Judgement Day

Terrorist, Interrupted

This is Multiple Spinal Fracture

"To Catch a Terrorist"

Terminator B52: Judgement Day

"The Odd Couple", starring Bill and Hillary.

"To Kill a Mocking Kurd"

"Taliban Girl: How to Take a Beating"

"Taliban Boy: Pointers from Gary Condit"

Terms of Entombment

Three Men and a Camel

"Touched by A Mullah", from Black and Blue Productions.

"Thank God It's Ramadan"

"Tombstones"

"The Bin Laden Bunch"

"Two Guys, a Girl, and a Fatwah"

The Adventures of Burhanuddin Rabbani Across The 8th Dimension

They died with their burkha's on

"Veilwatch"

Veronica's Closet Full of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses"

"Weekend at Osama's"

Who Wants to Be a Suicide Terrorist?

"Wheel of Fortune and Terror

Whose Cave is it Anyway?

"Welcome Back, Osama"

You are Pressed into the Army Now;

Yellow Submarine Cruise Missile Launch

"You've got Anthrax in the Mail"

Kabul TV

8:00 "Captain Kandahar"
9:00 "The Saudi Duty Show"
9:30 "Talibantubbies"
10:00 "Afghan Rugrats"
10:30 "My Mullah the Car Bomber"
11:00 "The Flying Nut"
11:30 "The Flintstonings"
12:00 "Jee-Hawd"
1:00 "The Sunni and Sheik Comedy Hour"
2:00 "Bazooka"
3:00 "The Veiled, Veiled East"
4:00 "Teenage Ninja Muslim Turbans"
4:30 "Anthrax Roadshow"
5:30 "The PJs" (with Peter Jennings)
6:00 "Sixty Virgins"
7:00 "Torched by an Avenging Angel"
8:00 "Everybody Loves Ramadan"
8:30 "The Drew Carriers Show"
9:00 "Enemies"
9:30 "Not Landing"
10:30 "The Merry Traitor Maher Show"

TODAY'S BEST BET:

2:00 "Bazooka" Eastern. The Cartridges have to deal with crack British and American forces that have invaded the Ponderosama. Starring Lerne Meene as Bin Cartridge, Bernhell Roberts as Atom, Damn Blockade as Camm, Michael Laden as Little Jihad, and Victor Die Yung as Hop Plane.