"...That our Flag was still there!"

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Bulldog

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This photo stirs some serious emotion in me. How 'bout you?

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Mort

New member
I gotta admit, it gives me a boost. And I always thought symbols didn't matter. Days like Tuesday are what symbols are for.
 
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Deadman

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I'm a South African born Australian and that image stirs strong emotions in me. The flag that was draped over the Pentagon also applies.


My prayers go to all the victims involved, and to all the rescue workers.
 
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Dennis

Staff Emeritus
A quiet little voice says to me, "I'll bet a Marine was involved."

I explained the picture to my 89 y/o Mother. She's nearly blind and can't see it. Her comment was from her era, "Rally 'round the flag, boys!"

Nearly blind..... Sometimes she's sees pretty darned good.
 
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posigian

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Only moments after the attack my flag was hung from the balcony of my apartment with tears of pain on my face.

Pray for those who have lost loved ones and those rescuers who will forever deal with trauma from what they have seen.

God give us strength!
 
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Elizabeth Petersen

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Wow.

Thank you, Bulldog, from the bottom of my heart, for that picture. Good for my heart and my soul.

I just emailed a copy of it to my hubby-to-be...he's in the AF, and has been on base pretty much since this whole horrible thing started (I've seen him a grand total of maybe 60 mins since tuesday morning).

I know it will give him, and his fellow airmen, a much needed boost.

Thank you again.
 
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yorec

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I just saw this picture on another gun related bulletin board in the company of the famous photo of the marines raising old glory on Iwo Jima. Pretty good statement I'd say...
 
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capnrik

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Thanks for sharing the photograph.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?


On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
 
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AUTiger73

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Would like to see a replay of our Marines raising the flag, next time over Afghanistan!

We must WIN this one! What ever it takes, nations that harbor terrorist must be defeated. God be with us in our endeavor.
 
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