Debuted yesterday at the Super Bowl. Onward.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
by Shel Silverstein
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
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I always stand when I see the flag paraded or raised. Even on film.
Didn’t John Ford revere the flag on film? Wasn’t it my grandfather who came from Germany to make a new life in America? Didn’t my father fight under that flag in the cold mountains of Italy? Wasn’t it me who marched on Bicentennial Day and wore the khaki uniform of the US Army?
The NFL can suck my ass. Good for Fox for making this commercial and I stood up. Even though I am here watching alone. I kept the tears back, too, up until I saw the little girl sewing the flag.
“The NFL can suck my ass.”
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I’m with ya line dawg.
I didn’t look at 1 second of that waste of time.
If you added up the hourly rate for everyone that watched that thing what would the total amount be?
God Bless America
Thank you, Casey. Excellent comment.
The song is very moving by itself and the video is excellent.
The lyrics however perpetuate a mistake:
“And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the texas flag, but she waved on though”
Unless I am very much mistaken, neither the Stars & Stripes nor the Texas Lone Star flag were flown over the Alamo during the battle.
The defenders flew the Mexican tricolor flag, with the date “1824” superimposed on the central white band, referring to the Mexican Constitution of 1824 which had been replaced with a Constitution and a government objectionable to the American colonists.
That is the flag I am flying this month, alongside Old Glory, until March 6, to honor those fighters and martyrs for freedom.