First of all, Happy Birthday United States. Second, Wednesday holidays stink. And now today’s 236th Anniversary jackass…

I stopped flying the flag. Something had happened. The United States changed. In my naïve eyes it did. To me the American flag represented something the United States no longer was. The American flag was a flag without a country. I felt I could not tarnish that flag by flying it over the nation as it was at that time.

The United States of America has a responsibility to live up to its own legacy of ideals. Those ideals are equality, life, happiness, freedom and liberty for all Americans, by birth, naturalized, oppressed or by aspiration.