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baxter black on patriotism

Red Robin

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THE FLAG

by: Baxter Black
DVM

With your permission I would like to indulge in a little naked patriotism. The United States of America, during my lifetime has become a nation like none other on earth. Not because it is the most powerful nation on earth, but because we, more times than I can count, have taken the side of the oppressed with no intention to conquer, rule or pillage.
In the act of offering our assistance, we have sacrificed blood, money and lives. We have beat ourselves up. We have questioned our motives. Our leaders have engaged in heated debate about the hows and whys, but we continue to be the single brightest light for the world's mistreated. We will take on the schoolyard bully.

In spite of all our mistakes, missteps, misjudgments and misgivings, the world today would be a completely different place if our country; conservative, liberal, black, white, rich, poor, north, south, Manhattan NY or Manhattan KS, Americans all, had turned our back on the injustices and inhumanities that relentlessly stalk the globe.

Supporting the troops and their families on the front lines in the war on terror is not a partisan action. It is an act of pride, compassion, love, concern, anguish and hope. They carry our colors into harm's way, and have since 1776.


Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Flag

That flew over Valley Forge

Was torn in two by the gray and the blue

And bled through two world wars.


I give you the flag that burned in the street

In protest, in anger and shame,

The very same flag that covered the men

Who died defending her name.


We now stand together, Americans all,

Either by choice or by birth

To honor the flag that's flown on the moon

And changed the face of the earth.


History will show this flag stood a friend

To the hungry, the homeless and lost

That a mixture of men as common as clay

Valued one thing beyond cost.


And they've signed it in blood from Bunker Hill

To Saigon, Kuwait, Bosnia

Kabul, Baghdad and Toko Ri.

I give you the flag that says to the world

Each man has a right to be free.
 

greg

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SOORY can't salute that flag,but that is because my grandfather put m here.I am Canadian
BUT I do appreciate my southern neighbors and realize they keep my family safe Appreciate it --No disrespect to boys in Afganastan-doin good job
 

sw

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Greg,
I have been in your neck of the woods, went through feedlot alley, on east and back into the USA. Concensus, the North American continent could have been divided by the Mississippi rather than the 49th, it would make more sense, Quebec could partner up with Massachusettes, Alberta, Montana and Saskat could be one. We are more the same than anyone wants to admit. Let the arrows fly.
 

jigs

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sw said:
Greg,
Let the arrows fly.


arrows??? I thought we already beat the indians......

I would have no problem "annexing" Canada, but first we nee to get rid of our southern neighbor....
 

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