{"id":43700,"date":"2020-07-21T01:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T01:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43700"},"modified":"2020-07-21T01:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T01:31:06","slug":"support-the-flag-and-what-it-represents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43700","title":{"rendered":"Support the flag … and what it ‘represents’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Check out this social media meme that showed up today. Read the text carefully … and then bear with me while I offer a brief interpretation of what it means to me.<\/p>\n

First of all, I am a huge fan and supporter of Gary Sinise. I honor his commitment to our nation’s veterans and as an Army veteran myself — one who went to war for my country in the late 1960s — I thank him for his support; it means a great deal to me.<\/p>\n

Now comes the “however.” He stands for the flag, puts his hand over his heart and salutes “what that flag represents.” It represents<\/em> a lot of things to me as well.<\/p>\n

It represents liberty, freedom, honor, sacrifice and the right of citizens to dissent, to oppose government policy.<\/p>\n

So, when individuals choose to, um, “take a knee,”<\/em> they do so in full compliance with what the U.S. Constitution allows them to do. The flag, thus, represents the Constitution, it symbolizes the greatness of this land.<\/p>\n

One of the elements of our nation’s greatness rests in the rights we have as citizens to protest peacefully without recrimination from our government.<\/p>\n\n

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Check out this social media meme that showed up today. Read the text carefully … and then bear with me while I offer a brief interpretation of what it means to me. First of all, I am a huge fan and supporter of Gary Sinise. I honor his commitment to our nation’s veterans and as … Continue reading Support the flag … and what it ‘represents’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9098,3409,7357,5043],"class_list":["post-43700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gary-sinise","tag-old-glory","tag-take-a-knee","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43702,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43700\/revisions\/43702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}