Remembering Our Soldiers....

This week I put up an American flag that I saved from desecration on Memorial Day.

On that day, I saw it as I waited for a bus to go to my friend’s house. It hung upside down and was attached to a stick on the bus stop across the street.

I decided to grab it as soon as I returned home. I figured that someone more patriotic than me would have saved it, but to my amazement, no one else did. So I took the initiative to save it.

In the past, dissenting Americans have dozed gasoline and burned flags, defecated on the flags and held it upside down, most notably during the Vietnam war and recent street demonstrations, including the G-8 protests in Seattlein 1999, the Elian Gonzalez raid in Miami in 2000, the anti-Iraq War March from 2003 to 2009 and most recently in the Immigration Reform March in 2006 and 2010 and the Occupy Wall Street Movement in 2011.

However, this was not a day for protest. Whoever did thus showed ignorance.

Memorial Day is a day for rememberance, not desecration. It is a day in our country when we honor those who have fought and died for preserving our freedoms and our beautiful and solid Constitution.

Memorial Day remembers the soldiers who have died over seas, but there are also veterans who have returned home with unmeasurable wounds, both physically and mentally.

Let us also remember through out the year  those who have suffered in our own nation while preserving our freedoms by pressuring Congress to continue seeking health and rehabilitation services for the ones who made it aliveafter fighting to protect Americans on the battlefield.