It's Veteran's Day. The country salutes the service of millions of men and women who chose to serve this great country we call home.
It's Veteran's Day. Our presidential election was over a week ago. If you chose to vote, your vote was cast more than a week ago. It's time for the signs to come down. We no longer need to see a show of who you voted for or who you wanted to win. It's done. Election Day was more than a week ago. Your sign is irrelevant now. It doesn't matter who you voted for. Take the signs down. Take the flags down. Take your candidate's name off the side of your buildings and off the billboards.
If you are a true patriot, your allegiance is not to a NAME, it is to this country. Replace that campaign sign, that campaign flag and that name on your building with the flag of the United States of American. Pledge allegiance to that value of "indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
If you are a true patriot, fly the flag that represents that country to which you are aligned. Is that the flag of the confederacy? Is that what you believe in? Is that where you want to go? A nation divided and focused on rights of subjugation of certain people.
It's time to take a good hard look at our values. It's time to take down signs and replace them with a flag that represents the aspiration of a much higher purpose. We have much work to do. We have failed to reach those higher aspirations but we really should be united in our desire to keep working toward that end. Take down the signs, the flags, the names on buildings and billboards that spark feelings of division. Get behind a united flag.
My new flag and spotlight go up now! I'm a veteran and approve this message.
