Today is Flag Day…the time when we set aside to honor and display our nation’s symbol….
Of all the flags on display by all those so-called ‘patriots’ about 70% are display incorrectly.
If you display thew America flag then display it properly.
A little history because most have no damn idea.
It Is Flag Day!
June 14–The Day Of The Flag
Not a national holiday but that is no excuse for a shoddy display of our flag.
On Flag Day you should learn some American history…..
On June 14, 1954, Flag Day that year, President Eisenhower signed a joint resolution of Congress amending the 1942 Flag Code, adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. The president had only recently been baptized a Presbyterian and was apparently in a religious feeling when he declared “the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.”
Not surprisingly, not everyone agreed. The backdrop to this issue was the Cold War, the struggle of atheistic communism against “Christian” democracy and capitalism. Eisenhower and Congress clearly wanted to differentiate us from them.
Many people already were against the Pledge of Allegiance on religious or philosophical grounds. Jehovah’s Witnesses thought the saying of the Pledge to the Flag was a form of idolatry. Forcing schoolchildren to recite the Pledge in the classroom was a breach of religious freedom, they said. Making a provision where the non-pledgers could silently sit or stand without reciting the Pledge was unacceptable because of the ostracism sure to come down on the children not saying the pledge from the other kids.
Additionally, constitutional purist have always objected to the Pledge on the grounds that in a democracy based on dissent people should not be saying an oath of loyalty. That seemed too much like the totalitarian states with all their pledges, oaths and affirmations. The First Amendment should prohibit forcing certain speech just as it allows free speech. Again, the argument against having school children say the Pledge and allowing “dissenters” to remain silent was considered unacceptable because of the peer pressure sure to follow.
June 14, 1954: President Signs Controversial “Under God” into Pledge of Allegiance
Have a good day and a better tomorrow.
Be Smart!
Learn Stuff!
Have a good day…..
“lego ergo scribo”
We don’t have Flag Day. One thing I don’t have to worry about.
Not that I would ever display a British flag. Over here, most of us don’t do that as it has ‘Far-Right’ implications.
Best wishes, Pete.
I do not display…most people do it and do it wrong so why do it….just my thought. chuq
Every time I see a flag attached to a pickup or motorcycle, I want to hand out a copy of the flag code. Every time I see someone with the flag wrapped around their shoulders or touching the ground, I want to hand out a copy of the flag code. Every time someone has written on the flag or displayed it with the field in the wrong way, I want to hand out a copy of the flag code.
Every time the flag goes by in a parade or is raised or lowered from a flag pole….yeah, stop your damn talking, stuffing your face, walking around because the flag code defines what you are supposed to do! Read the damn flag code!
It drives me nuts when I see privately-displayed flags that are faded or shredded by long use in strong wind. Read the damn flag code!
The whole flag business in this country is full of lots and lots of ignorant uses and means of display. I get upset when I see images imposed over a flag-like design, flags that try to tie an image of some political point to patriotism, I guess, but really offensive to me!
Many people think the law should make it illegal to burn the flag as a protest, something rarely done inside the USA but that hasn’t passed muster in the courts. The irony is that the flag code defines the appropriate method for disposing of worn or damaged flags – burning! There is a ceremony performed by veterans’ groups or boy scouts to do it, however.
It doesn’t make me happier about flag abuse that Donald Trump’s birthday is on Flag Day.
All true….I called these people ‘sunshine patriots’….to them it is just a symbol to be used to divide. chuq
I call them “reflected glory hounds”, basking in the symbols of freedom without the damn sense to figure out what tey mean.
Good name….chuq