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Hello everyone out there in Internet Radio Land, Dave Jones again, and I forgot to mention
Flag Day!
Oh my gosh!
What is wrong with me? As the PBN historian, why is Flag Day so controversial? Well, everybody
thinks that the Betsy Ross flag is racist, and nothing can be further from the truth.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
For, okay, let me go back. It was the Second Continental Congress made a resolution that the flag of the United States will be 13 stripes, alternating red and white,
alternating red and white in a union of 13 stars,
white in a blue field
representing a new constellation.
So that's what this was about.
It was about unity.
It was not about slavery.
It was about bringing 13 colonies together.
It had nothing to do with racism or slavery.
And it has everything to do with people trying to tear down the United States.
Okay?
People trying to destroy
our heritage.
So fly your Betsy Ross flag
today.
It is also the day that
the Army came into existence
because the Second Continental
Congress
made the Army.
Made the army. Made the army.
The fighting had already started.
You know that.
The first people that were shot and shot at and shot on were citizens.
Yeah, they were Paul Revere. Remember all that?
I know. I know. It's hard to believe. But this was
in 1777. Okay.
So the fighting had already been going on in New York
and Lexington and Concord and
when they decided to create an army
no one knew
what the outcome was going to be
but they knew
that they had to do it together
they had to be in unison
and just like the Declaration of Independence
was a unifying thing,
so was the fight against Britain.
And they knew that they needed a standard,
something that people could rally around
and that people could identify with.
I am a part of the United States of America.
And to this day, when we swear people into the military, you can't do the oath unless
there is a United States flag present.
You can't swear someone in.
And if you look at any swearing in ceremony,
the flag is there and it says,
displayed prominently.
Because you're not swearing to that officer.
You're not swearing allegiance to a pope
or a potentate or a king or an emperor or a czar.
You're swearing allegiance to the country, to the Constitution for which it stands.
And that's why the flag needs to be there.
Yeah, so today's Flag Day.
And I'm sure I mentioned this before, but it was my mom's birthday.
And growing up, when they put the flags out on the street, my mom would always say,
Look, they put the flags out for my birthday.
And for a while, we believed that.
So happy Flag Day, PBN family.
And this is your This Day in History moment.
Yes, Betsy Ross.
And, oh man, if you look at the history of our flag, it is amazing. Because
they, just from that description, okay,
that's what you had to make a flag out of.
And there were
different iterations, especially ones that flew
on naval ships.
When the United States started to get a navy together.
There's John Paul Jones.
The English called him a pirate.
We called him the father of the navy.
He was a crazy guy.
Crazy guy. But
I guess you could say that about the founding fathers.
Yeah, who knew
that this experiment called the United States
where people governed themselves
could exist for so long.
Fractured though it may be,
I believe we can get back.
We have to root out the evil,
punish the guilty,
defend the innocent,
and get back to our moral compass that we were founded on.
And that's all I got to say about that.
So take care and prep on.