DAC - Flag Day!!

[00:00:00] Hello everyone out there in Internet Radioland, Dave Jones again and I forgot to mention Flag Day. Oh my gosh, what is wrong with me? As the PBN Historian, why is Flag Day so controversial?

[00:00:32] Well, everybody thinks that the Betsy Ross Flag is racist and nothing can be further from the truth. For, okay let me go back. It was the second Continental Congress made a resolution that the flag of the United States will be 13 stripes,

[00:00:59] alternating red and white, in a union of 13 stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation. So that's what this was about. It was about unity. It was not about slavery, it was about bringing 13 colonies together.

[00:01:28] It had nothing to do with racism or slavery and it has everything to do with people trying to tear down the United States. Okay, people trying to destroy our heritage. So fly your Betsy Ross Flag today.

[00:01:53] It is also the day that the Army came into existence because the Second Continental Congress made the Army. Made the Army. The fighting had already started. You know that, that the first people that were shot and shot at and shot on were citizens.

[00:02:22] Yeah, they were Paul Revere, remember all that? I know, I know it's hard to believe. But this was in 1777, okay. So the fighting had already been going on in New York and Lexington and Concord and when they decided to create an army.

[00:02:47] No one knew what the outcome was gonna be. But they knew that they had to do it together. They had to be in unison and just like the Declaration of Independence was a unifying thing. So was the fight against Britain and they knew that they needed a standard.

[00:03:17] Something that people could rally around and that people could identify with. I am a part of the United States of America. And to this day when we swear people into the military, you can't do the oath unless there is a United States flag present.

[00:03:44] You can't swear someone in and if you look at any swearing in ceremony, the flag is there and it says displayed prominently. Because you're not swearing to that officer. You're not swearing allegiance to a pope or a potentate or a king or an emperor or a czar.

[00:04:09] You're swearing allegiance to the country, to the Constitution for which it stands. And that's why the flag needs to be there. Yeah, so today's Flag Day and I'm sure I mentioned this before but it was my mom's birthday.

[00:04:35] And growing up when they put the flags out on the street, my mom would always say, look they put the flags out for my birthday. And for a while we believed that. So happy Flag Day PBN family. This is your This Day in History moment. Yes, Betsy Ross.

[00:05:01] And oh man if you look at the history of our flag, it is amazing because they just from that description. OK, that's what you had to make a flag out of.

[00:05:16] And there were different iterations, especially ones that flew on naval ships when the United States started to get a Navy together. There's John Paul Jones. The English called him a pirate. We called him the father of the Navy. He was a crazy guy, crazy guy.

[00:05:45] But I guess you could say that about the founding fathers. Yeah, who knew that this experiment called the United States where people governed them themselves could exist for so long. Fractured though it may be, I believe we can get back.

[00:06:12] We have to root out the evil, punish the guilty, defend the innocent. And get back to our moral compass that we were founded on. And that's all I got to say about that. So take care and prep on.