Today is Flag Day. On military posts and bases across the country, ships at sea on the oceans of the world and in absolute armpit hellholes in far-flung places whose names none of us can remember or pronounce, the men and women who wear our country's uniform are according appropriate honors to our flag today, as they do every day. Feel free to join them.
One of the honors I know they render, having been one of them, be it standing at attention, saluting or kneeling to acknowledge our need to do better by all of us, is the conviction that every one of us is entitled to no less than the dignity and respect we would want for one another and anyone who feels otherwise isn't actually an American and they need to stop pretending they are.
One of the honors I know they render, having been one of them, be it standing at attention, saluting or kneeling to acknowledge our need to do better by all of us, is the conviction that every one of us is entitled to no less than the dignity and respect we would want for one another and anyone who feels otherwise isn't actually an American and they need to stop pretending they are.
-bill kenny
