180317S- Reminders from Our Flag

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Reminders from Our Flag
for Saturday, March 17, 2018
... a 'Saturday Replay Day' ...

[We recommend you designate each Friday as #FlagDayFriday - a day to take a moment and be thankful for all America offers by performing a pre-Pledge Tribute. But, if #FlagDayFriday doesn't fit within your morning schedule, you're welcome to GO HERE to perform this week's Pre-Pledge Ceremony on any day of the week.]

Across the USA, Our Flag flies at full staff, except in MA.

In Massachusetts, Our Flag is at half-staff on Saturday, March 17, 2018, the day of interment, in honor of Specialist Michael J. Grella, Joint Force Base Langley - Ft. Eustis, VA; of Gloucester, Massachusetts who died on Friday, March 9, 2018.
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Flag Steward - Honors and Awakens Our Flag to Inform and Inspire Patriotic Citizens
by showcasing this past Monday's 'REMINDERS FROM OUR FLAG'

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On this 'Military Monday', we recall General MacArthur and the beginning of one of the greatest American comeback stories. On March 11, 1942, General MacArthur, ready to fight to the death against the Japanese invading the Philippines, begrudgingly leaves the islands by order of President Roosevelt. Upon his departure, General MacArthur stated these famous words to the people of the Philippines, "I shall return."
Two-and-a-half years later, on October 20, 1944, General MacArthur got his revenge as he waded ashore the Philippines. He was there to lead his American forces to defeat the armies of Imperial Japan and free the Philippine people from Japanese rule.

And, today's quote providing #MondayMotivation ...
... recalls General MacArthur's famous speech to the Cadets at the US Military Academy (West Point) in 1962.

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Painting by Paul Steucke - http://www.paulsteucke.com/dhc.htm

TODAY'S FALLEN MILITARY COMMEMORATION:
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On Wednesday, March 14th, an F/A-18F crashed while on approach to the Navy's Key West Air Station.
The two crew members aboard were killed in the crash - Lieutenant Commander James Brice Johnson and Lieutenant Caleb Nathaniel King. They were based out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia and flew with the “Blacklions” of Strike Fighter Squadron 213. Johnson, the aircraft pilot, as a 2007 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. And, King, the back-seat weapons systems operator, was a 2012 U.S. Naval Academy graduate.
We honor and thank Johnson and King for defending our freedoms and fighting to liberate the lives of others.

Additionally, we're aware of another aircraft crash that occurred on Thursday evening in western Iraq. A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk went down killing all 7 crew members aboard.

Thanks for reviewing today's 'Reminders for Our Flag'
- a service from the Flag Steward program

Now go 'Be a good citizen' today by ...
... picking up and disposing of 2 pieces of trash that will help
keep America beautiful !!!

In God We Trust
(Official motto of the United States of America)

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