Flag-folding Recitation banned
October 28th, 2007 at 9:18 pm . by nukeFrom The Scrooge Report
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.
There are no words…….
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Charlie Waters, parliamentarian for the American Legion of California, said he’s advising memorial honor details to ignore the edict, even if it means being kicked out of cemeteries.
“This is nuts,” Waters, a Korean War veteran, said in a telephone interview from Fresno. “There are 26 million veterans in this country and they’re not going to take us all to prison.”
This is absolutely insane. Who’s to say what is right and wrong here? How can our government conviently forget that we were founded on Christian fundamentals. *sighs* This is insane.
First, click on this link from Snopes, concerning the flag folding ceremony.
The script that is mentioned in this story, is not official. Nontheless, it is often requested, and if it is at the honored’s request, or his family, it should be allowed. I can’t abide by some people being so easily offended, then expecting everyone else to jump through hoops to satisfy their beliefs, over everyone elses.
/a-holes
Yes, Snopes is a good place to check out facts, however, I have found them to have a liberal slant. If you read the flag-folding article as linked in no2liberals post you can see how hard they want to downplay the “religious” aspect of the flag-folding. However, it is good to know of the origin of the folding.