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<\/p>\nKEN: It is Flag Day. June 14th, 244 years ago Congress commemorated Betsy Ross\u2019s creation of the Stars and Stripes as our national flag. And I was raised, like millions of Americans, you respect the flag. Even though I\u2019m nonmilitary, I know how to fold the flag, display the flag, the history of the flag.<\/p>\n
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You never let the flag hit the ground. When you disposed of the flag in one of the — among the more special moments of when my kids were young now — they\u2019re 17 and 20, almost — and when they were scouts, when they were Cub Scouts, Webelos, Boy Scouts, we would go to this event where everybody would get their old flags — tattered, ragged flags, and you ceremoniously disposed of them in the correct way, the honorable way. You burn them, but you burn them together, and you tell stories and you comment on American history.<\/p>\n
I gotta say, as a scout dad back in the day, it was one of the coolest events. I have these beautiful photographs of my kids and the other scouts in uniform reading little parts of American history, and then we got new flags, and the flag looked different throughout the years. I mean, there\u2019s 27 variations. Actually, as America grew through the colonies to 50 states, there were 27 variations. And I think the left at one time or another has hated all of them. They\u2019ve managed to hate all of them.<\/p>\n
Remember the big Betsy Ross thing. Remember the big fundraiser on the Rush Limbaugh Show. That started because the left, they were acting like knuckleheads again.<\/p>\n
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We have a great story told by Rush of when he received a very special delivery involving our American flag.<\/p>\n
RUSH I\u2019ve told this story before. Some of you who have been longtime listeners have heard the story, but it is worth hearing it again.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s May of 2003. A couple of months earlier, we began the invasion of Iraq, one of the first acts in the War on Terror. This was the war that was to remove and eliminate Saddam Hussein. George W. Bush had spent a year and a half traveling the country explaining it, gearing up support for it. It was a major, major conflict in the War on Terror and our response to it.<\/p>\n