What So Proudly We Hail

As I stood with my hand over my heart, staring up at the American flag waving in the distance as the Star-Spangled Banner played prior to the start of a local high school football game the other night, I asked myself what it meant to honor our flag and anthem like that these days. In light of professional and Olympic athletes kneeling, and disrespecting the American flag and anthem, because they believe they are symbols of the injustices committed in our nation’s history, what message does the act of honoring our flag and anthem really convey?

I thought about the disastrous ways in which our newly “elected” leaders are running our country, the anti-American, and anti-Constitutional decisions and policies that the Biden administration is implementing, and I questioned if my standing meant that I approve of what Joe Biden is doing. Is my standing for the flag supporting his decision to open the southern border to illegal immigrants and drug cartels? Or his surrender in Afghanistan leaving hundreds of American citizens, and billions of dollars of weapons behind? Or his mishandling of Covid pandemic and vaccines? Or his shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline? Or his insistence to turn every American institution “woke”? Or any of his other 55 Executive Orders? Is my honoring of the flag an approval of all of Biden’s catastrophic and tragic decisions he has made since January 20, 2021?