The Emblem of the Land We Love: Some Thoughts for Flag Day

Put out a flag on June 14, even if it’s just a small one in a potting vase. It’s the perfect time to recollect who we are.
The Emblem of the Land We Love: Some Thoughts for Flag Day
A house displaying an American flag in Seal Beach, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2023. Sophie Li/The Epoch Times
Jeff Minick
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In 1974, Johnny Cash wrote and released “Ragged Old Flag.” In that hit song, a first-time visitor to a small town meets an old man sitting by the courthouse and comments on the tattered flag hanging from a tilted pole on the lawn. The old man invites the stranger to sit down and then tells of the battles and wars over which that flag has flown, from American independence to the Alamo, from Chancellorsville and Shiloh to Korea and Vietnam. Near the end of the song, the old man says:
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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