TO THE COLORS!

By: Edward Richardson, Berwick, Maine March 5, 2014

     As I was reading the news today, I suddenly got an image in my head I could not shake:

     I saw Our Flag falling towards the ground…

     For those who have never stood at attent...ion holding Our Flag for hours at a time through a divisional change of command ceremony, there is something that every soldier knows…
Our Flag MUST NEVER TOUCH THE GROUND!

 

Yet, in my image, I see it falling towards the ground and NO ONE is there to catch it…

     However, there IS someone there….

     I am there!

     We are ALL THERE!

     It used to be back in the days of the revolution, the civil war that, if a soldier saw Our Flag falling towards the ground during battle, that he would do whatever it took to STOP it from touching the ground, even if it meant his death…

     Why? Because, the flag represents not only the existence of our country, but also the lives of all those who defend it now or have defended it in the past. 

     The symbolism of a flag draped casket comes to mind as being the soldiers last chance to support the flag as if to continue, even in death, preventing Our Flag from falling to the ground, from falling from the view of the world, from falling from the annals of history.

     America needs EVERY CITIZEN to STEP FORWARD and SEIZE the staff of Our Flag and support it and keep it from falling! 

      America NEEDS YOU to STEP-UP and LEARN THE TRUTH!

     The best way to do that is to READ THE CONSTITUTION and READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Look up the meanings of the words LIBERTY, FREEDOM and INDEPENDENCE in the dictionary. Learn the meaning of phrases such as “…shall not be infringed.” and “Congress shall make no law…” as well as words such as establishment, speech, assemble, petition, redress, grievances and especially what it means to have a “right” to something.

     We ALL must put just as much effort into LEARNING about what exactly it was our founders believed LIBERTY to be and what FREEDOMS and RIGHTS they intended to pass on to their posterity and progeny as soldiers put into preventing Our Flag from being dragged through the dust.

     Once you have a firm understanding of the Rights our founders intended to secure for us, look around you, at your local government, your state government and especially at the federal government. Once you look at them with a mind enlightened by the TRUTH of what our founders intended for us, and you see the TRUTH of the TYRANNY being exercised over us you will also see that Our Flag is falling and that it is up to US to SAVE IT!

     OUR FLAG MUST NOT FALL!