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[quote=Anonymous]Growing up I daily raised and took down the flag that flew in front of my grandmother's house.  It was my honor to do this.   My grandfather was a Korean War veteran.  He was 19 years old when he was drafted.  He received the Purple Heart.

My father daily flew his American and POW-MIA flag.  He was a Naval Academy graduate received the Distinguished Flying Cross in the Vietnam War.

My brother recently served in Iraq.

I am a Foreign Service Officer.  I love my country.  I love representing it overseas.  It is not perfect, but I do believe it is generally in the right, but I do not cringe from criticizing it when it's wrong.  As Stephen Decatur said, in his famous toast,“Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!” Or as restated by Carl Schurz, “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

One of my most emotional moments came when I served in Korea.  An elderly Korean man has heard my grand-father has served in the Korean War.  He took my hand and said, You tell him from me, thank you."

I fly my flag every day, because it memorializes the members of my family who served.  It is a statement of pride in their service. It is also a statement of pride in bring American.  It is our flag, not, as in do many countries, the state flag.  It represents the hopes and dreams of my immigrant ancestors who came here from Europe and found s better life. Like the Statue of Liberty, it is s beacon for those seeking the freedoms they cannot find in their home lands.  They are welcome here.

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