Mrs. Vander Waal
Dani
What the American flag means to me is not an everyday question that I ask myself, but for this assignment I had to think a little bit more than usual. The American flag is a symbol of unity, justice, love, forgiveness, pride, freedom and bravery.
When I say unity, I mean that the flag brings us together. We don't have fighting within our country, we can stand together as one without dividing into separate groups, we use our words to negotiate rather than using violence and devastation.
When I say justice, everyone in the U.S. has a chance to explain their side of the story, so the story is not one-sided. People are open-minded, and we have a chance to explain what we see.
Love in the U.S. is also open-minded. We have a chance to love any race we would like: African-American, Hispanic, Japanese, Chinese, ANYONE. We also have a right to love our country, everything and everyone in it.
We have forgiveness, the forgiveness of God, friends, loved ones and family. We forgive each other when we have sinned, or made a terrible mistake. We forgive our country when something terrible happens and when something good happens we have the choice to rejoice.
Pride...as Americans, we have a sense of pride in our flag. When we see our flag we have this feeling like oh my, I live in this country were everything is fair and just. We see our flag, and we have no flaws. We are perfect.
Freedom, without wars and the fighting, well without our history were would we be? We would probably be without rights and freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom for interracial marriage...NO RIGHTS! Without our troops we would be stuck...not good!
Our flag symbolizes bravery because of our troops we free, we are proud, and we are safe. Have you seen troops come home, or even a soldier who has died for our country? What symbol do they always have? The Flag! Our troops have bravery, I mean would you have the courage and bravery to go over to Iraq and fight? I wouldn't.
I will forever believe in our flag to symbolize BRAVERY, FREEDOM, FORGIVENESS, PRIDE, LOVE, JUSTICE and UNITY.
--Danielle
Dani
What the American flag means to me is not an everyday question that I ask myself, but for this assignment I had to think a little bit more than usual. The American flag is a symbol of unity, justice, love, forgiveness, pride, freedom and bravery.
When I say unity, I mean that the flag brings us together. We don't have fighting within our country, we can stand together as one without dividing into separate groups, we use our words to negotiate rather than using violence and devastation.
When I say justice, everyone in the U.S. has a chance to explain their side of the story, so the story is not one-sided. People are open-minded, and we have a chance to explain what we see.
Love in the U.S. is also open-minded. We have a chance to love any race we would like: African-American, Hispanic, Japanese, Chinese, ANYONE. We also have a right to love our country, everything and everyone in it.
We have forgiveness, the forgiveness of God, friends, loved ones and family. We forgive each other when we have sinned, or made a terrible mistake. We forgive our country when something terrible happens and when something good happens we have the choice to rejoice.
Pride...as Americans, we have a sense of pride in our flag. When we see our flag we have this feeling like oh my, I live in this country were everything is fair and just. We see our flag, and we have no flaws. We are perfect.
Freedom, without wars and the fighting, well without our history were would we be? We would probably be without rights and freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom for interracial marriage...NO RIGHTS! Without our troops we would be stuck...not good!
Our flag symbolizes bravery because of our troops we free, we are proud, and we are safe. Have you seen troops come home, or even a soldier who has died for our country? What symbol do they always have? The Flag! Our troops have bravery, I mean would you have the courage and bravery to go over to Iraq and fight? I wouldn't.
I will forever believe in our flag to symbolize BRAVERY, FREEDOM, FORGIVENESS, PRIDE, LOVE, JUSTICE and UNITY.
--Danielle