Thoughts on America at 250 – Part 3 of 3

We have flown the American flag at the front of our house since 1998. On the Fourth of July weekend, we also fly a much larger American Flag that flew over the Capitol of the United States on Abraham’s Lincoln’s 198th birthday, February 12, 2007.

The American flag belongs to all of us. Not because we agree with each other on everything. We do not. Nor because we agree with the government on everything. We do not.

“My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” - Former Union Army General and then United States Senator Carl Schurz, speaking to the United States Senate, February 29, 1872.

The flag belongs to all of us because America is supposed to be for all of us, and it is our duty to create and defend the America of our ideals.