Happy Flag Day!

June 14, 1777

Why do we celebrate and hold our flag in honor of our country, state, or city? What is the significance of a flag?

Flags symbolize a nation’s identity, unity, and pride. Flags evoke patriotism and serve as powerful symbols in both peaceful and wartime contexts. So why then, is it significant to us? Why did we have to have flags in the first place?

In ancient times, as far back as 1046 BCE, people carried flags in royal processions in China and India. I suppose this is the way humans identified themselves as to who they were, what they stood for, and why they were important. Just as wearing a certain pin on your lapel is a way of showing people who you align with, a flag was a much more overt way of doing this.

It’s an odd thing, isn’t it? Staking a flag is a symbol of ownership in a way. And yet, we have people burning flags when they get upset at their country. That act is like giving up ownership of your domain. This is one thing that boggles my mind.

And then I think on to what our national anthem was based on and it revolves around the survival of the flag. It’s like saying, ‘hey! we are here and we are never giving up’ (hence the white flag and it’s symbolism).

Have you ever read all the lyrics to our national anthem? It’s pretty mind blowing.

Have you ever raised a flag in honor of something? That is a hair-raising experience. It’s almost spiritual. And you have to think why? This symbol holds so much meaning. And, our states want to go and change the flags on us. Why?

Have you seen the new Minnesota flag? It’s hideously impersonal and it looks like a lot of other flags. I really think the globalists (UN) are trying to erase our sense of individuality from our nation states and countries. The top flag is the original flag and the one below it the ‘new’ state flag <eyeroll>. Don’t our state representatives have better things to be doing than erasing our state history?

Star Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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