[optacon-l] Re: Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John McCain
- From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:56:58 -0700
Anthony,
You're sending these messages out to lists again, and the subject
matter has absolutely nothing to do with the list. I'm getting
complaints about this, and justifyably so.
Please stop sending out such off-topic messages until you can
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who have to pay for downloading mail etc., and it really is an
imposition on those folks.
I realize you have some problems there, but I also have to keep in
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can understand my position on this.
Thanks,
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Vece" <ajvece@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:11 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John
McCain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Tinney" <tinneyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bob Tinney" <tinneyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:08 PM
Subject: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John McCain
> I've seen this before, but it's worth reading again!
> Bob, tinneyb@xxxxxxxxxxx, K8LR
> Skype name: bobtinn
> Live Long and Prosper!
>
>
> In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with
> respect to
> the
> Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John
> McCain
> is very appropriate:
>
> The Pledge of Allegiance' - by Senator John McCain
>
> As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of
> war
> during
> the
> Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept
> us in
> solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA
> moved us
> from
> these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30
> to 40
> men
> to a room.
>
> This was, as you can imagine, was a wonderful change and was a
> direct
> result
> of
> the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred
> POWs
> 10,000
> miles from home.
>
> One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike
> Christian.
>
> Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama. He didn't wear a
> pair of
> shoes
> until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy. He
> later earned
> a commission by going to Officer Training School. Then he became a
> Naval
> Flight
> Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen
> and deep
> appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military
> provide
> for
> people who want to work and want to succeed.
>
> As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some
> prisoners
> to
> receive packages from home. In some of these packages were
> handkerchiefs,
> scarves
> and other items of clothing.
>
> Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of
> months, he
> created an American flag and sewed it on the inside of his shirt.
>
> Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang
> Mike's shirt
> on
> the
> wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
>
> I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important
> part of
> our
> day
> now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed
> the most
> important and meaningful event.
>
> One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did
> periodically, and
> discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside and removed it.
>
> That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for
> the
> benefit
> of
> all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of
> hours. They
> opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as
> well as
> we
> could.
>
> The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on
> which we
> slept
> and four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.
>
> As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After
> the
> excitement
> died down, I looked in the corner of the room and sitting there
> beneath
> that
> dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his
> bamboo
> needle,
> was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes
> almost
> shut from the beating he had received, making another American
> flag. He
> was
> not
> making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was
> making
> that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to
> Pledge
> our
> allegiance to our flag and country.
>
> So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never
> forget
> the
> sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to
> build our
> nation
> and promote freedom around the world
>
> You must remember our duty, our honor and our country
>
> 'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of Ameri ca
> and to
> the
> republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,
> with
> liberty
> and justice for all.'
>
> PASS THIS ON... and on... and on! You can even send it back to me,
> I don't
> mind,
> because its worth reading again!
>
>
>
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