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JOHN MCCAIN'S REMARKS ABOUT THE PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE!
In
light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with respect to the
Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is
very appropriate:
"The Pledge of Allegiance" - by Senator John McCain
As
you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the
Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in
solitary confinement, or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved
us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to
40 men to a room.
This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.
One
of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.
Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama . He didn't wear a
pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US
Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training
School. Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and
captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the
opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to
work and want to succeed.
As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing. Mike got himself a bamboo needle.
Over
a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the
inside of his shirt. Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we
would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of
Allegiance.
I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed a most important and meaningful event. |
That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.
The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept. Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.
As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement had died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and our country.
So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
PASS THIS ON....and on....and on!
4 comments:
One Must remember that the phrase 'under God' was added in the 1950's during the McCarthy Red Scare. The same with the phase 'In God We Trust' being printed on our money, it never happened until the 1950's and so many, Many folks seem to think that these phrases were there from the beginning. It was a part of the Republican Platform of divide and conquer that got shut down in that era because there were still enough educated individuals and a sense of common decency that McCarthy then, and the Repub party now, had/has seemed to completely lose.
Now that they have managed to dumb down the populace and have such rigid control of the media that people will believe the lies and distortions without ever questioning them.
For America to move forward, the party of NO and Backwards Into The Future (the Repubs, of course) MUST be defeated in this election. The Repubs have left sanity, common sense and any connection to decency that they ever had.
America cannot survive another Repub Administration, especially one with such a preponderance of Bush Advisers on Romney's staff. Romney is nothing more than a retread rerun of Bush II that even the Repubs distrust and will ONLY vote for him because he is white!
This is an old story. John McCAIN IS A TRAITOR TO THIS COUNTRY! hE SOLD OUT LONG AGO! hE IS A nwo PUPPPET AND HAS COMMITED TREASON OVER AND OVER! hE CO-SPONSORED THE f-ING nAZI ndaa ACT PEOPLE! tHIS WAS CIRCULATING WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR POTUS.sO DON'T FALL FOR THIS BS!
Both father and son involved in coverup of USS Liberty.
John gave up info to save his life.
Dumped his faithful wife for a blond bimbo when he came home.
He lacks integrity.
Both father and son involved in coverup of USS Liberty.
John gave up info to save his life.
Dumped his faithful wife for a blond bimbo when he came home.
He lacks integrity.
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