06/14/2024
Honoring Flag Day, May she wave free for all eternity.
Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you a Lady that needs no introduction, but she is getting one because of just how great a lady she is.
This Lady I speak of, well she is a mere 248 years old, but she has had to fight every inch of the way to get this old, and she isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
The Lady you know as Old Glory, The Stars and Stripes, our American Flag.
This is the flag that was Born in 1776, to defend the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of These United States.
The same Flag that inspired a poet, lawyer named Francis Scott Key to write a poem called Defense of Fort McHenry, which would eventually become the Words for the Star Spangled Banner, our National Anthem.
This Flag stood for Freedom from her very beginning and she still stands for freedom today.
Every country on the face of this earth knows this, some would wish to defeat it because she is so strong, but just like the morning Key wrote his now famous poem, She still stands, sometimes battered and bruised from battle, and sometimes battered and bruised by her own people, but she never waivers in what she stands for.
This Flag flew over two wars on our own soil, in places like Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and as recent as South East Asia.
The same Flag that has covered the many men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice defending our nation and our constitution.
So, Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our American Flag, the stars and stripes, Old glory, because each man, woman, and child whether by choice or by birth have the right to be free because of her, and because of the men and women who have given their lives in the defense of her and what she stands for.