Sunday, July 29, 2012

JOHN MCCAIN'S REMARKS ABOUT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE!

JOHN MCCAIN'S REMARKS ABOUT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE!

In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is very appropriate:



"The Pledge of Allegiance" - by Senator John McCain


As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.  In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement, or two or three to a cell.  In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room.

This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.
One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.  Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama .  He didn't wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old.  At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy.  He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School.  Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967.  Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.

As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing.  Mike got himself a bamboo needle.

Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.  Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed a most important and meaningful event.

One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it.

That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours.  Then they opened the door of the cell and threw him in.  We cleaned him up as well as we could.

The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept.  Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.

As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement had died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian.  He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag.  He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better.  He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and our country.

So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world.  You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
 

PASS THIS ON....and on....and on!  You can even send it back to me, I don't mind, because it’s worth reading again.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

So sweet!

Anonymous said...

Weaving the flag does not make you a good American; but signing the NDAA makes you UN-American!

Anonymous said...

John Mccain is a traitor and a cabal shit!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, pass it on...he disclosed it himself...they didn't pledge allegiance to their country.

Truth in plain sight for those that have the skills to discern it.

""He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and our country.""

Now did that flag do anything to save them? No! And their country does not negotiate for prisoners....so maybe that's why they don't pledge allegiance to a country that does not negotiate for them, and should not pledge to a flag that can't protect them.

Keep the blinders on....rituals are so powerful, people don't want to stop doing them, even when they find out it's a ritual.

Anonymous said...

PEOPLE..... W A K E .... UP!!!! John McCain is one of the biggest Traitors in America... The Soldiers that were in the Hanoi Hilton, gave written testimonies many times about how he (John McCon job) was a Traitor and screwing them at the same time... he is one of satans emissaries..... Why a Traitor would say this is beyond me.... Look up google ..... John McCain Traitor..... John McCain, what his fellow prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton had to say about him....... preferential treatment at the Hanoi Hilton.... This man is in the top 5% of who needs to be arrested right now... Kapesh!!!!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous-11:06 A.M.-"ditto"

Anonymous said...

John McCain also is for the "codex alimentarius" where they can take away all of our vitamins and nutrtional supplements, and eventually be able to come and arrest us and fine us a million dollars for growing our own food, and god forbid (notice the little g in god-that's their god, Satan) give a tomatoe or some beans to a neighbor. Also on project camelot, it has a segment where someone said that John McCain is a double agent for Russia. Watch out for him.