Browse the following stories written about protecting our flag:
MG Patrick H Brady
Dear Sgt. Shaft:
This past March the Citizens Flag Alliance released the results of a poll on the flag amendment. The results confirmed once again the overwhelming support of the people for the amendment... read more.
It is always such a great pleasure for me to be with you and share the warmth of your presence. I am awed at the legacy you represent... read more.
It's the Constitution. The 1989 Supreme Court decision defining flag burning as speech should outrage every American, flag burners as well as flag waivers... read more.
You bet. But it is important to know that the amendment does not of itself prohibit flag desecration, or change the Constitution... read more.
Sixty three percent of the Senate recently voted to protect our Constitution by denouncing the 1989 Supreme Court decision which declared flag burning to be "speech."... read more.
On March 28, a small group of veterans will assemble in the nation's capital in support of a constitutional amendment to protect their flag... read more.
On the Fourth of July we celebrate our birthday, a colorful and exciting event, but the true beauty of our Declaration of Independence that marks the day is that it led to our Constitution... read more.
I recently read that we are in a “post patriotic” period. If this is true, it is truly tragic. Patriotism is the lifeblood of a democracy, yet many think we are bleeding to death... read more.
If the veterans we honor today could return to the America they saved, they would be horrified to see what has been done to the Constitution they died to protect... read more.
In some faiths there is a doctrine on grace. It teaches that there is a treasure chest filled with grace. And it was filled by the sacrifices of Jesus and the saints... read more.
At Arlington Cemetery each year at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we honor America’s nobility — our veterans... read more.
A Flag Amendment, House Joint Resolution 54, was introduced in the House of Representatives on 13 February by Reps. Gerald Solomon (R-NY) and William Lipinski (D-IL)... read more.
Stephen B. Presser
A new millennium is an appropriate time for thinking about the first principles of American society, and such an effort is now underway, involving all three branches of the United States Government... read more.
In what was surely one of the most moving moments of the recent House debate on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde spoke of the current dangers facing the nation, and his hope for the future... read more.
If you believe the recent published editorials and press accounts, the recent passage of the proposed Flag Protection Amendment by the required two-thirds majority in the United States House of Representatives is a silly orgy of emotion by unscrupulous politicians... read more.
IEach member of Congress, when he or she begins to serve, takes an oath to support the U.S. Constitution, as required by Article VI of that fundamental document. That oath ought properly to be regarded as an obligation to recapture the Constitution through the passage of constitutional amendments when the U.S. Supreme Court misconstrues it... read more.
Richard Parker
It has been a decade since a shocking 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidated century-old federal and state laws banning the physical desecration of the Stars and Stripes... read more.
Once again, a large majority of the U.S. Senate is committed to send the Flag Amendment to the states for an up-or-down vote by representatives of the people... read more.
This spring, the American Flag was in the news again. Several high schools forbade students to display a flag – or even to wear red-white-and-blue clothing. Their reason was stark... read more.
Adrian Cronauer
A Secular Sacredness Saluting the Flag's Special Symbolic StatusThirty years ago, as a young Air Force disc jockey, I entertained our troops in Vietnam. My signature wake-up call, "Good Morning, Vietnam!" eventually became the title of the hit movie based ever so loosely on my radio career in Saigon... read more.
Daniel S. Wheeler
Just Plain Tired of Being Pushed AroundOn Thursday evening, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks took a seat in the "colored" section of the green-and-white Cleveland Avenue bus that would take her home... read more.
The Augusta Chronicle
t has been a decade since a shocking 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidated century-old federal and state laws banning the physical desecration of the Stars and Stripes... read more.
