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I got a nice thrill from one of my younger grandaughters (age 6 , first grade) Sat.

We were driving down PCH and their was an Antiwar demo at the Huntington Beach Pier. One of the demostraters had a good size replica of the flag on a 4x5 foot poster board with writing scribbled over the flag, which she clearly didn't care for. Then she broke out with the Pledge of Allegiance including "in God we Trust".

It gave me shivers and pride!

She attends public school and church, thee is hope in our young ones!

We were on vacation when 9/11 happened last year.

By the time we got home from Oregon, there was not an American Flag to be found. We went to a craft fair and bought a couple of Flag Craft type things to put in our windows.

Our grand daughter saw a lot of flags around her neighborhood and her mother was sent a flag from the east coast by one of her family members. That flag has flown everyday since our DIL got the flag. Our grand daughter will even salute the flag sometimes. Her Papa taught her how to do that.

She kept asking where our flag was on visits. Finally I was able this spring to buy and an American made American Flag and mount the bracket to fly it everyday. They came up for a weekend. Later that evening I had taken our flag inside for the night. She got up early the next morning and looked out our kitchen window. She was upset that someone might have taken our flag.

So she and I got our flag and put it up.

When we got inside, she said "Shame on you Papa!"

We asked her what she meant, and she said, "Papa didn't put his flag out this morning!"

So hopefully our grand children and children will do a better job with the flag than some of us have. Her twenty month old brother is starting to pay attention to their flag and others in their neighborhood!

Ernest, when I drove that old wrecker down here for 9 years, I got to meet the lowest of the low, and the highest of the high- wrecks and breakdowns cut across all lines... and you know what?

Most Americans a good, decent people. Even some who are rough as a cob sometimes show amazing kindness and helpfullness.

God bless your grand-daughters- America is going to be OK.