Flag-Folding Recitation Banned in Cemeteries Nationwide
October 26, 2007 · Print This Article
By JOE VARGO
The Press-Enterprise
Through thousands of military burials, Memorial Honor Detail volunteers at Riverside National Cemetery have folded the American flag 13 times and recited the significance of every fold to survivors of those being laid to rest.
The first fold, a narrator tells relatives, represents life, the second a belief in eternal life.
The 11th fold celebrates Jewish war veterans and “glorifies the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”
A single complaint lodged against the words for the 11th fold recently prompted the National Cemetery Administration to ban the entire recital at all 125 national cemeteries.
A spokesman in Washington said the complaint originated from someone who witnessed the ceremony at Riverside National but would provide no other details and declined to release the directive banning the flag-folding recital, saying it was “an internal working document not meant for public distribution.”
Well, I would think so. Liberals really need lives.
Ok, what’s next, the Government taking away our guns?????????????????
This is crazy! What does this person mean “A spokesman in Washington said the complaint originated from someone who witnessed the ceremony at Riverside National but would provide no other details and declined to release the directive banning the flag-folding recital, saying it was “an internal working document not meant for public distribution.”
This looks and sounds too wrong. One complaint - then no more for all 125 National Cemeteries! ONE PERSON - NO THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE READY TO JUMP ON THIS AND USE IT FOR AN EXCUSE!
You know what - I’M OFFENDED BY THIS ACT - I’M OFFENDED BY THIS ONE PERSON! I’M OFFENDED BY THE COWERING OF SO MANY TO THIS EXTREMELY OUT OF CONTROL “RIGHTS REMOVAL ABILITY” WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY TO US - WE THE PEOPLE.
Are we not the Boss of our government employees? Then what the hell are we allowing this kind of OFFENSIVE CRAP TO BE PUT ON US BY THOSE WE EMPLOYEE
BY OUR VOTES?
I say everyone start calling all government offices and complaining, start emailing, start knocking on doors, start petitions - let us take back our country and remove those in position that have no business being there!
Twana Blevins, Oklahoma
Indeed historically, as Americans we don’t just accept our destiny, we shape it. The U.S. government has banned the flag-folding recitations at all 125 national cemeteries. The banning came as the result of one complaint! The situation is similar to that in which one person removed prayer from schools.
Those still in uniform and those who have served honorably in the past….be proud of who you are and what you do. For you are former members of the United States Armed Services. Know that your citizenship dues have been paid in full; you are part of the nation’s elite group, as US veterans.
For it has been said before about our veterans, “Since the birth of our nation, our liberty has been purchased by valiant men and women of deep conviction, great courage, and bold action; the cost has often been in blood and tremendous sacrifice. As America’s sentinels of freedom, our veterans are counted among the finest in the chronicles of war.”
We should have the Flag folding recitation restore as it was for the veterans.