Respecting the flag
Just look how we have progressed since Dec. 25-26, 1776, when Washington and others crossed the Delaware.
Underpaid officers rise each morning during the current times and send people under their command to places that they do not return.
Each morning all of those people respect the flag as it is raised and at the end of the day as it is lowered.
Today we have people, who are paid to play games have decided the flag should not be respected. Gen. Washington may have stayed by the campfire if he could have seen into the future.
These players that are disrespecting the flag have not given up their youth to travel to all the wars that were fought to give them their right to protest and receive praise for playing a child’s game for pay.
Mickey Burgess
Columbus
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