Memorial Day

Our small Memorial Day parade is led by a veterans group carrying an American flag in the front of their group followed by some other flags. Somewhere within the first five groups there are family members of our local military carrying a huge flag by it's edges. In years past, the folks on the sidelines knew to stand and remove their hats as these two flags passed by. Not this year. Maybe that's some of the change upon which Mr. Obama ran. Or, perhaps, having gone so far down the road of political correctness it is simply no longer fashionable to be respectful of our flag. If so, it is a sad and sorry change.

Then, as I was watching, I saw a little girl across the street. She had been given a small flag to wave at the parade. She was hitting it(the flag end) against the ground in time to the music from the marching bands and at other times just let it lay on the street. At one point the father of this little family gave her sister a flag too and she treated it the same way. At the end of the parade, I crossed the street and told the father I didn't mean to be rude but that his little girl was hitting that flag against the ground throughout the entire parade and that every time it hit the ground I just cringed. He apologized.

Am I the only one anymore who thinks that if your child isn't old enough to understand that our flag does not touch the ground, they shouldn't be given one? Or am I just the only one willing to teach my child so?


My sincere thanks to all who have served to preserve my freedom. I appreciate your sacrifices and hold you up in my prayers. May God grant that we who have benefited so greatly from the sacrifices of others hold to our duty to repel the economic, political and cultural attacks meant to deprive us of the freedom that has been so dearly won.

"Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil." Psalm 40:14