I am disgusted. After having served this country for 28 years in the U.S. Air Force, I must make this point. When I enlisted, and every time I reenlisted, I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. In this land, I now find many Americans who are happy to wrap themselves in the flag and burn the Constitution.
The flag is a piece of cloth, the national anthem glorifies war, the music for the national anthem comes from an English gentlemen’s club who met, sang and drank at the Crown and Anchor Public House in the Strand in London, England, and our Pledge of Allegiance is to that very piece of cloth that is routinely disgraced by many Americans who do not have a clue about how to display it properly.
Our freedoms come from the Constitution and not from the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance or from the national anthem. Remember this, a right denied to one is a right denied to all.
Frederick L. Elsass, North Canton
This article originally appeared on The Repository: Our freedoms come from the Constitution | Letter
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