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Designed to recall the color scheme of the traditional prayer shawl (the tallis), and incorporating a Star of David, the Israeli flag does not, as far as I am aware, have any secondary nickname or epithet such as "the Stars & Stripes," "the Star Spangled Banner," the "Hinomaru", or the "Union Jack."
While I cannot consider myself Israeli, and none of my ancestors have lived in Israel for many many generations, I feel a strong attachment to this country and to this flag as my own. I suppose this must seem strange to many others, their connections to Ireland or Italy, China, Korea or Japan, Venezuela or wherever being fairly direct. Jewish ethnicity and national identity is an unusual thing, if not wholly unique, and I don't blame others for not understanding it; however, I do believe that, particularly as the oldest nation (the oldest people) on Earth, our notions and rules and traditions of our identity are perfectly valid, even if they don't fit into the molds other cultures follow.
When the night
Seems to say
All hope is lost
Gone away
But I know
I'm not alone
By the light
She stands
There she waves
Faithful friend
Shimmering stars
Westward wind
Show the way
Carry me
To the place
She stands
Just when you think it might be over
Just when you think the fight is gone
Someone will risk his life to raise her
There she stands
There she flies
Clear blue sky
Reminds us with red
Of those that died
Washed in white
By the brave
In their strength
She stands
When evil calls itself a martyr
When all your hopes come crashing down
Someone will pull her from the rubble
There she stands
We've seen her flying torn and tattered
We've seen her stand the test of time
And through it all the fools have fallen
There she stands
By the dawns
Early light
And through the fight
She stands
"There She Stands"
by Michael W. Smith
We track flags by user on Metafilter -- when someone has a comment or post that is flagged, it goes into a db table that we keep around for posterity, and on the per-user admin pages the site generates for us we can see those flags in reverse chronological order, as well as a graph summing up the last year or so of flagging activity directed at that user's content.
This is where I've been flagged over the last year, in graph form, as well the beginning of the canonical list of flags. (You can see that I've been flagged a total of 402 times in the 10+ years I've been on the site, which is a pretty solid stack in fact, but I'm also an extremely active user and, as a mod, unusually visible.)
I've blurred the names of the folks doing the flagging, but you can see that each line item tells us what sort of content it was, what the db id is, what the flag was, and who flagged. The widgets off to the right can be used to manage flag visibility on the admin flag management screens but we rarely use them on this screen specifically.
Truth from God's Holy Word. This is in the Old Testament, yet it is referring to Faith in Jesus Christ, thousands of years before God became a man, to die and take away our sins Forever!
We are save by grace, through Faith in Jesus and all that HE accomplished for us. Not because of anything we do, it's all Jesus! Period, there is NOTHING YOU can do to improve on the sufficiency of Christ Jesus. So the Nation, whose PEOPLE trust in Jesus, shall NEVER be put to shame. We are Blessed because of YOU O LORD, AND YOU ALONE!
You want to be blessed? You don't have to move to America, all you have to do, is place saving faith in the ONE that did it ALL, and regardless of where in this world you live. YOU will be blessed by the ONE that created both heaven and earth and all there is in them.
What makes this Nation so special, so blessed? Because the people call upon the Name of the Lord, who is Jesus.
" For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.." (2 Corinthians 6:2)
------------------------ JESUS ✝️ SAVES -------------------------
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father in the Lord Jesus Christ, FOREVER! Through Faith in Jesus!
10 The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:10)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so they might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
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pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandeira_brasileira
Hino à Bandeira Nacional (Letra: Olavo Bilac e Música: Francisco Braga)
Salve, lindo pendão da esperança,
Salve, símbolo augusto da paz!
Tua nobre presença à lembrança
A grandeza da Pátria nos traz.
Recebe o afeto que se encerra
Em nosso peito juvenil,
Querido símbolo da terra,
Da amada terra do Brasil!
(...)
(Brazilian flag hymn)
It is one of many used during the struggle for independence. The flag believed by heirs of Emilio Aguinaldo to be that unfurled by the general in Kawit, Cavite, in 1898 is encased in glass at the Aguinaldo Museum on Happy Glen Loop in Baguio City; however, the National Historical Institute has yet to authenticate this flag despite years of probing. In his letter to Capt. Emmanuel Baja dated June 11, 1925, Aguinaldo mentioned that in their Northward retreat during the Filipino-American War, the original flag was lost somewhere in Tayug, Pangasinan Province; the Americans captured the town on Nov. 11, 1899.
(Photo courtesy of Philippine-American War website written and compiled by Arnaldo Dumindin)