When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.
For countless years, service members have given the “flag-folding speech” at military and civic events, including retirement ceremonies. Traditionally, this speech explains the colors, symbols, and history of the flag. The flag-folding speech also contains several religious references, including, “Let us pray that God will reflect with admiration the willingness of one nation in her attempts to rid the world of tyranny, oppression, and misery. It is this one nation under God that we call, with honor, the United States of America.” READ MORE
Perhaps the mentioning of G-d is not the reason for the removal of the veteran but the embarrassing choice of words used. In the past “to rid the world of tyranny, oppression and misery” may have been truthful in the past, but not so today when the USA has a track record as the Big Brother Bully in her treatment of other countries for the satisfaction of her own evil agenda.