Flag Day 2009

Yes, the U.S. Flag has been given it's own day. Many have either forgotten about it or just weren't taught about it at all.

Some will ask why a flag should have it's own day. After all it is nothing more than pieces of cloth sewn together or in the smaller, less costly ones it is just a number of colors printed on a single piece of cloth.

It isn't the flag itself but rather what it stands for that gives us cause to recognize and honor it.

It stands for those that came from afar nations that suffered and died in a strange land, that tamed a wild land so that they would have a place to live and worship as they desired.

It stands in remembrance of those that fought against an oppressive people, the few that wished to rule the many, and in the process died for those freedoms that are enjoyed beneath it.

It stands for the grace of God over a nation that recognized His sovereignty over all and above all that of any single man to rule.

It stands for those freedoms given to us by that self same and only God that no man has the right to take from us.

It stands for those that suffered and died even in foreign lands trying to give others the chance to enjoy those same freedoms from oppression and suffering.

It stands for those self same liberties that many still wish to take from us and put us all into subjection to them.

It stands today, flying freely in the wind as a remembrance of all these things.

May the grace of God allow that flag to continue flying over this nation and bless us with those freedoms.