{"id":18619,"date":"2025-06-15T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=18619"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:24:53","slug":"its-a-grand-old-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/its-a-grand-old-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Grand Old Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While watching the parade for the 250<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of the Army it gave me a sense of the America that I grew up in. One that didn\u2019t have all of the controversary and fighting that takes place on a daily basis driving our country apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That parade brought back memories of my time as a child watching our military marching down the main street in our town with the people cheering and waving from the sidewalks waving their miniature American flags. It appears to me that many Americans have lost their sense of pride in our country and our military which protects us from all enemies both foreign and domestic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next week, I will turn 80 years of age, and I honestly never thought I would reach being an Octogenarian. One of the things I so vividly remember was the day I joined the Navy at the ripe old age of 17. I was in my senior year of high school and had to get my stepfather\u2019s permission to join. I wound up spending my spring vacation at the Navy\u2019s Great Lakes training center and quickly learned that this was a whole new world where if you wanted to survive and thrive you had better listen to your superior officers. On our last day there we had a parade on base for all those graduating and it set off a sense of pride that I had never felt before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching the parade that President Trump held in honor of the Army\u2019s 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary gave me a rerun of that same sense of pride I felt on that day I graduated boot camp. I\u2019m not sure where we went astray as a country but I have a sense that even with all of the discourse we currently have I can see America coming back to greatness. Watching those troops marching in formation and the people on the sidewalks waving American flags gave me a sense of hope that America is back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with all of the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest rallies held throughout the country watching our military march down the streets of our nation\u2019s capital gave me a new sense of hope. I firmly believe that Trump is going to be successful in turning the country around and the people are responding. I believe they see hope on the horizon for our future as the greatest nation in the world filled with opportunity and prosperity for all like we have never seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may never be totally united as a people but we are the only country in the world that has all of the freedoms that most other countries wish they had. This is why so many want to live here and become American citizens because it is the land of unlimited opportunity where you can be what ever you want with hard work. There is no other country in the world like ours and we should all be proud that we live here. So, the next time you see our flag think about how fortunate you are to be an American and remember that Freedom isn\u2019t Free someone paid a price fore us to have these freedoms that many take for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God Bless America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching the parade for the 250th birthday of the Army it gave me a sense of the America that I grew up in. One that didn\u2019t have all of the controversary and fighting that takes place on a daily basis driving our country apart. 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