fiatbrat70

This picture tells a huge story ... A story of 400 plus years ... a story of the lives of many generations in a struggle for dignity, decency, and justice. A personal story of my forefathers clearing land with axes and their bare hands and of the women by their sides in the wilds of swampy Louisiana. A story of a quest to be free from the tyranny of noble and serf. One of my Grandfathers left La Rochelle France with a new bride in 1612 to come here and help carve out the freedom he and she were seeking. And my story is only one of millions that were given hope by this new land. It wasn't the USA then ... it was just a new opportunity to correct the long endured injustices of the dark ages of Europe. Through many trials, tribulations, wars and other skulduggery, this part of the new world became the USA. It was a place of mixed blessings, but its opportunity was a shinning light for the rest of the world. I contributed to this land and also received some of its blessings. At a time not long ago, that discarded little flag would have made me sad. Now we are changed to a nation which is entirely different from the vision of my youth. Among the many changes toward a police state and a new dark age, we declare war pre-emptively, we allow torture like the Spanish Inquisition, and no citizen has any freedom from surveillance of our government. It is with regret for my children and everyones children, that I have now determined that our flag is best put among the dying leaves of a life that has been. Gone with the wind ...