I didn’t want this week to pass without a
comment on Flag Day. It was a couple of days ago. I thought about it then, but
put it off until now.
There was a time in our history when our
flag was empty of experience. It had the symbolism of a United people and the
expectation of greatness, but we were a young country and as yet had little
collective history.
The United States wasn’t even a year old
when Continental Congress adopted the design on June 14th, 1777. But now as we
celebrated Flag Day this week, we remember that our flag is much more than red
and white cloth stripes and symbolic stars in blue.
It’s everything that’s ever happened to
this country and everything we’ve ever done. It’s victory and defeat. It’s
protests and pageantry. It’s honor with humility and shame with remorse. It’s
living and dying for principle.
Above all our flag is the waving symbol
for all the world to see of our passion for liberty, our sustaining belief in
the democratic ideal, our willingness to spend life and treasure for freedom
for all.
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