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No banner day

Sun., Nov. 14, 2010

I hung my flag out on Veterans Day and noticed that I had the only flag flying. I drove around the neighborhood to see if any others were up.

I saw stuff still out from Halloween and Christmas lights going up. However, there wasn’t one flag.

I live in a neighborhood of young marrieds. Don’t they know about the men who died for this country? Didn’t anyone teach them why we hang our flags out? Do none of them have a love for this country?

This is heartbreaking to see. The schools need to quit teaching some of the nonsense and get back to basics, especially love of country.

Lorene Scott

Coeur d’Alene

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