We can learn a lot about people by the flags they fly and how they fly them, the flags in which they wrap themselves, and the flags that they oppose.
When pro-Hamas mobs burn Old Glory (and fly Hezbollah’s flag), we know where they stand. When pseudo-sophisticates revile flags of American Independence as symbols of oppression and hate, we recognize their rejection of the principles of our Founding Fathers. And when people fly cultural revolutionary flags alongside the Stars and Stripes, they show what they believe matters most.
Americans who surrender the flags of our country’s founding to their political opponents are, whether they realize it or not, surrendering America’s founding principles. We see this happen when patriotic Americans decide not to raise certain flags for their own cause — the defense of those principles. These flags include the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and the Pine Tree flag that calls for “An Appeal to Heaven.”
Rather than fight to keep the flags for all, the anti-patriots surrender them as standards of extremism. This is tragic.
Less and less symbolism remains for Americans to rally around. The political elite even treat Old Glory as a mere political tool.
We observe Flag Day annually to honor our current national flag of 13 stripes and 50 stars. The day marks June 14, 1777, when the Continental Congress defined the 13 red-and-white stripes and a blue union field with a circle of 13 stars as the official flag of the United States.
