Posted on 06/20/2016 6:09:18 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.
For countless years, service members have given the “flag-folding speech” at military and civic events, including retirement ceremonies. Traditionally, this speech explains the colors, symbols, and history of the flag.
The flag-folding speech also contains several religious references, including, “Let us pray that God will reflect with admiration the willingness of one nation in her attempts to rid the world of tyranny, oppression, and misery. It is this one nation under God that we call, with honor, the United States of America.”
The speech closes with, “God bless our flag. God bless our troops. God bless America.”
In 2005, the Pentagon changed the speech to remove all references to the divine, substituting additional historical facts such as Neil Armstrong’s planting of an American flag on the moon in 1969. But many service members prefer the traditional speech and desire that version given at their own retirement celebrations.
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I think so!
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Posted By Tim Hains
On Date June 19, 2016
The earliest I can find is 9/2009. I think 2005 is a lie!
You have a point, at least in my experience in the CAF. After 7 years of 2PPCLI and 3 tours, I remustered to air force. I was looking for the greener grass, and was tired of dodging bullets.
After a year and a half of training for AVN Tech in Borden, ON. I was posted to 408 squadron in Edmonton, tac hel. Then the faggotry commenced. Backstabbing, lazy, useless cowards. Can’t even march 13km with ruck without a 6 month workup. Even then, after its over, they’re all broken and lame. I quickly quit the military shortly after. They were going to try to hold me to contract, but a colonel owed me two favours. (long story). They started flying rainbow flags on base and are a pathetic bunch of tards.
I have zero respect for the Canadian airforce who also left us hanging lots in danger overseas. They wouldn’t come get us in Sarajevo because it was too dangerous. Thank God the French were on the same net and heard our call for help. They brought the Herc in and grabbed us, catching small arms fire in the process. The Canadian airforce would rather sit way back in the rear echelon eating all the lobster before it gets to the forward bases (yes, I never got any lobster). I don’t care about the food, it’s their “me first” mentality. I’d die for my brothers. These pussies wouldn’t die for anything.
Sorry, make that 9/2011.
“I use ghostery but Breitbart is still a minefield...”
You are so right. They do post some good stuff, but Breitbart is by far the most user unfriendly of all the prominent conservative websites. I simply refuse to go there anymore.
And who was President in 2005? No more excuses or apologies for Bush. Yeah, our 2 veto President cared/cares about our troops.
This is so shameful, words fail me.
This week I was in Orlando..........and there is a huge sign that simply says
PRAY FOR ORLANDO
Pray to whom?.....God?........
.....the one God who can actually hear our prayers!
The same God our nation has tried to erase from history!
I was at a bar a couple of weeks ago, a father and daughter were there having a beer, she said - is air force boot camp like the marines? Dad laughed and said, no more like boy scout camp.
Bush was president in 2005. We need to start realizing that he was a white Obama.
Yesterday in church the deacon asked us to “pray for the gay community in their time of sorrow”!
I almost stormed out.
Why is an entire group of people held up for admiration & sympathy solely because of the vile & unnatural way they use their private parts?
That and the manhandling of the veteran who mentioned God convinces me even more that the End Times are at hand.
He was involved in a similar altercation last month. It’s touched on in this article.
Seems he likes intruding on events like this. The Base knows about him and he’s been banned - but he likes stirring the pot.
F-ing $&@! Following orders instead of protecting and defending. Here it comes. We will not be able to count on our servicemen, police or military when unlawful orders are given. This is proof they’ve been compromised. Those who are prepared to die for your rights, I salute you. COME TOGETHER and stand or die alone.
Your post reminded me of a guy dubbed the Tweed Creeper - a colonel in the Canadian Air Force, who liked to sneek into people’s homes and steal panties, which he would wear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(colonel)
He was a big shot in the Air Force, before getting caught.
BTW, the US military is rapidly going down the same road as the Canadian AF.
AGAIN, liberal “word games”. Removing God from a flag ceremony dedication. WHY?
They Substitute Neil Armstrong for GOD? HUH?
You can’t make this stuff up. We the sheeples just sit there and let it happen. We keep swimming around in the pot while the water gets hotter and hotter, yet we don’t even notice.
This is no SMALL thing. Like death from a thousand cuts, you are just as DEAD.
It happens because the media allows it. Maybe I’m slow, but I learned about this change in the wording right here, right now. Under the (MSM) radar. Consequently the people are unaware of what is happening right in front of their faces.
Obama is not the “Manchurian” Candidate, he is the “ISLAMIC” Candidate. What objective observer could conclude otherwise? Obama (Satan) and his minions (Hillary, et al) have installed Islamists throughout our government. Where is our modern day Joseph McCarthy?
MCCARTHYISM: THE ROSETTA STONE OF LIBERAL LIES (Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism) Ann Coulter
Don’t let them get away with changing our words. “WORDS MATTER”. OMG do they ever matter!!
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We appear to not care. It reminds me of a line in one of my favorite movies, “Point of No Return”. Bridget Fonda is trained to say in the face of abject horror,
“I never did mind about the little things”.
Well we better STOP not minding “the little things” because they are a means to an end of very BIG things.
I see that this was instituted under Bush (enforced under Obama).
That doesn’t change a thing I said!
As someone so eloquently said on FB “God damn them all to hell”.
I truly believe the USA’s days are numbered. We are no longer a nation that reverences God, foreign missionaries are having to come home because of lack of funding, evil beyond imagination is being practiced. Heavenly Father, We pray for the men and women in the military for their protection and their salvation. May no weapon formed against soldiers who are acknowledging You while in uniform prosper. In Jesus Name, Amen
Agree.
I don’t give a damb who started this, our National Death by PC must end. Here and now.
God help US if the left is not evicted in November. The consequences will be a blood bath of epic proportions.
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