The recent california court decision

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THE RECENT CALIFORNIA COURT DECISION

THINKING OF THE RECENT CALIFORNIA COURT "PLEDGE” DECISION, IT IS WELL TO BE REMINDED OF THE FOLLOWING STORY ---
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GOD BLESS AMERICA

You may not always agree with Senator John McCain, but one must have the utmost regard and highest respect for what he endured for this nation. This story was told several years ago when John McCain was interviewed. It is very appropriate in light of yesterday's appeals court ruling in California.

The Pledge of Allegiance - Senator John McCain


From a speech made by Capt. John S. McCain, US, (Ret) who represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate:

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 the most important and meaningful event.

One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it. 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 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 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."

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Submitted by Richard

 

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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.

Are native americans and african slaves also builders ? If yes when do they get recognized for their blood and sweat, and I mean it literally when I say blood and sweat.
When I hear these stories I automatically think of the person being in denial of the truth, or the beginning. In denial of the fact that the freedom of others were taken away for this nation to be built. When the story is fast forward of course there's stories of pride but if we would rewind to the beginning , it would leave a true Christian feeling ashamed.

Tell the whole story and you would see there was never justice for all and being under God does not mean of God or made in God. If you'd looked under you'll probably see a tagged saying " made in China "

The world is big and each country contributes in its own way whether it be suppling weapons or food. Yes this country is helpful in the gay rights and freedom, forcing countries to believe in their western values that are fashioned after Aleister Crowley ( satanist , freemason, promoted the practice of raping boys for spiritual powers ) who left the motto " Do as thou wilt ." No nation is better or greater than another some are just better story tellers of history.

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

Our citizenship is in Heaven, and this is where our loyalty must be.

Do you know what is done to poor countries around the world including africa, if they don't follow the holy western values they would loose aid money. This include embracing abortion and homosexuality. Is that fair ? People should have the freedom of running their countries without fear of foreign military or losing aid money and going hungry.

One month after the conference, a previously unknown Ugandan politician, who boasts of having evangelical friends in the American government, introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, which threatens to hang homosexuals, and, as a result, has put Uganda on a collision course with Western nations.

Donor countries, including the United States, are demanding that Uganda’s government drop the proposed law, saying it violates human rights, though Uganda’s minister of ethics and integrity (who previously tried to ban miniskirts) recently said, “Homosexuals can forget about human rights.”

The Ugandan government, facing the prospect of losing millions in foreign aid, is now indicating that it will back down, slightly, and change the death penalty provision to life in prison for some homosexuals. But the battle is far from over.

Instead, Uganda seems to have become a far-flung front line in the American culture wars, with American groups on both sides, the Christian right and gay activists, pouring in support and money as they get involved in the broader debate over homosexuality in Africa.

“It’s a fight for their lives,” said Mai Kiang, a director at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a New York-based group that has channeled nearly $75,000 to Ugandan gay rights activists and expects that amount to grow. NYTimes