Flag Day 2022

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Flag Day 2022

(for everyone)

I am thankful to be an American

And hope you are thankful

For your nations

We can’t love them because they’re fair

Without acknowledging

The ugliness

Even as we might want to change

Corruption and injustice

There are small victories

We might have taken part in

Or might

Someday

Someday our nations might be perfect

Not if we stand against each other

In the nation

Nation against nation

A nation is defined by how it lives

How it saves

Then how it waves

With ready refusal to

Participate in Armageddon

C L Couch

Flag Day in the USA is 14 June.

“I Am Thankful to Be an American” is a song. I think of it when I think of Flag Day.

Photo by Samuel Branch on Unsplash

clcouch123

I use C L Couch when writing formally because it is a version of my name that's genderless. And, frankly, easier for handwriting--I have a severe writer's cramp. In conversation, I go by Christopher, having been named for the boy who had the poly bear and finally being (achieving) fine with that. I use small Xes all the time because WordPress won't let me cut and paste the text from my program page to this one. (Grrrrrr.) I am a career educator, semi-retired due to disability. I live in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (USA). The main photographs at this site (of the road, of me) were crafted by photographer and my friend Debra Danielson. A variety of her work is available for appreciation at Thank you, lookers, hearers.--Christopher

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henhouselady
June 14, 2022 at 6:43 pm

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Thank you for sharing about what it means to be an American on Flag Day.

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- clcouch123
  June 14, 2022 at 7:52 pm
  
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  You’re welcome–and thank you! I like to consider the meaning in the patriotic holidays.
  
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