Our American Flag at Half Mast, again…
Our American Flag at Half Mast, again..
I originally wrote this August 6, 2016. It was before there was a Medium…and now again and again the atrocities are reoccuring like a nightmare. The same speeches, prayers, etc will be rehashed and nothing will be done. I can only hope that “The Times they are a-changin’…so I presist.
“This was my second blog post ever. I am now on my 51st posting.This posting was 1 year ago. Apparently there have been so many mass killings since then that we have become numb to it; that is until Las Vegas.The question is simply this: will I be writing this again one year from today? This thought has been circling my mind for some time now. It needed a place to land. Bob
“So One Year Ago: I passed the fire station today. There it was, by order of the President, the American flag at half mast, again. So I looked it up. First, you all should know that just this year alone, the flag has been lowered in February, twice in March and May, in June, and three times in July. I think you all know what the causes were. Here is the saddest thing: the fire station should have raised it up on July 22nd when the President’s order ended…at sunset. But, alas, the times being what they are, caused the nation’s heroic fire fighters to merely keep it at half mast.
