So, how was your holiday? We stayed home this year for The 5th of May God Bless America. We grilled pork and watched cable as politicians, foreigners, and educators try to destroy America. When I dropped the boy off at school this morning I was going to wear my Tea Party t-shirt adorned with the American Flag…but they only had XL available that day. My goal is to fit into my red, white and blue Tea-Shirt by Memorial Day.
Memorial Day is coming up fast…we’ll have to check with local “authorities” to see if the kids can wear their American Flag t-shirts to school. Their grandfather served Old Glory for 36 years: He started out in the Army Air Corps killing real Nazis over Europe and ended up a Colonel in the Air Force bombing foreign Communists in Vietnam. He lived and died (and killed) with the idea that the American Flag would be allowed in American schools—any day of the year. Someday we’ll visit his gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery so his granddaughter can recite the Pledge of Allegiance for him—it’s a stirring rendition, but I may be biased.
Speaking of bias—can we show it on The Fourth of July? Or, will we have to spend energy apologizing and defending the flag on that day as well? In our house, we combine Labor Day with the birthday of our soon-to-be-5-year-old: This year she’ll receive something with a red, white and blue theme. For Halloween we try to keep the Labrador in a Hippie outfit with fake arms dangling in front of her chest and a frizzy-haired wig on her head: I guess this October she’ll be going as a White House advisor. On Veterans Day we'll feel gratitude and fly the Colors. Again with the gratitude, on Thanksgiving blueberries and sour cream will sit next to cranberry stuff. Our Christmas cards, when sent, have a flag on the front—maybe we should have stocked up last year…
On Martin Luther King Day we will wonder why our elected leaders rejected George Washington’s Birthday to celebrate a black man who stressed character over color—just to have our elected leaders reject MLK by mocking character and hyping color year after year. On Presidents Day we will ponder many…and honor a few. Valentine’s Day will see a red heart on a blue field with white letters saying I love you. On St. Patrick’s Day I will drink one green beer; then one red beer, one white beer and one blue beer.
On Mother’s Day I will kiss my daughter’s mom, who looks so great in her Tea-Party t-shirt; and I will honor the memory of a caring and generous woman who would have slapped the punk out of any assistant principal who sent her boy home for wearing the Red, White, and Blue.
On Father’s Day…. for the children…I will try to be the best American I can possibly be.
On the next Cinco de Mayo we will settle down with pork chops and watch cable as…
This article is OUTSTANDING!!!! WOW, I cannot believe Olivia is almost five.I know you must be very proud of her.
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