Maybe it is all  the "junk" in the news lately emanating from the starting of the  Presidential race.  We've become so fractious and inwardly focused lately that I thought I'd take a quiet moment and remind myself of the story behind all the noise .... Nothing seems to represent the USA more than Old Glory!

Waving wildly from atop a high pole ...

Tattered and stuck in a cyclone fence surrounding a small graveyard in New Mexico ...

Being waved by Asian immigrants as a symbol of fidelity to their new county at a political rally ...

We need to remember where we've come from; what we've done to become a nation; the sacrifices made to remain one ....

It's a simple idea ... 

So I'd like us to move on ... united against those who want us to fall; not bickering like children fighting over who gets the biggest piece of cake.  

When the time comes, that's how I going to vote.  

Too simple?

Thanks for letting me vent,

adam