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Midweek Reflections on Flag Day

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Do not desecrate Old Glory
By wrapping your hatred in the Stars and Stripes.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 1188
Today is Flag Day. Write anything you want about flags.

Flag Day

Flag Day in the U.S.A.
Look across your neighborhood
And see who flies Old Glory
You may be very surprised.

Do you see the Syrian refugee,
And the family who fled Iran?
You see them saluting Old Glory!

On this day and everyday,
remember the quote on The Statue of Liberty.

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Emma Lazarus

The United States of America is a country settled by refugees and migrants. The ancestors of the Native Americans came first, they walked across the Bering Land Bridge1 and, perhaps, even lived on the land bridge for thousands of years before migrating to the rest of the American continent. Later in American history people, for one reason or another, fled Europe to build a new life in America. On Flag Day, we must remember that we are a nation of migrants and refugees who sought new opportunities and, in doing so, built a nation.

Footnotes
1  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-americans-lived-on-bering-land-...