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| Opening Day |
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| THE AMERICAN FLAG |
In today’s meeting, I wear my Yankees hat and logo t-shirt to honor opening day coming up tomorrow. This hat is my current favorite because it has the flag of Nicaragua on the side. And I struggle with that country's ongoing suffering…..following are my reflections on this opening day…
Opening Day
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| with my Bosox fan John |
After a day of rain, the sun is out, shining and warm for opening day in the Bronx. Yankees and Red Sox. What could be better.
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| the Ukraianian flag waves... |
Right there, right beside the American flag, just a little lower, the now familiar blue and yellow flag of Ukraine. A ten year old girl in folkloric dress stands at home plate and sings the Ukrainian national anthem, with minor keys of yearning, so much more poignant now. Because. It is moving. And we all feel for a moment as if we were actually involved somehow. Actually doing something instead of the helpless feeling of knowing that daily innocent people are dying in theatres, schools and even hospitals. Maternity wards. And we live with this knowledge as it goes on.
I love the blue and yellow flag, waving above us.
Ringing the roof of Yankee stadium are the pennants of all Major League teams, arranged by league and division and their current standings. I often ponder how these flags are rearranged and who does it. As right as flying the Ukrainian flag is, I want more. Fill the flag poles.
I want to see the red and gold flag of Tigray province undergoing genocide by Eritrea. I want to see the Arab Liberation flag of Yemen being daily assaulted and relentlessly bombed by US supplied Saudi Arabia. The liberation flag of Palestine, still occupied after 74 years of unending naqba, catastrophe. The flag of Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco. The blue and white stars and stripes of Ambazonia under the heel of the francophone Cameroonians.
How about the flags of democratically elected governments overthrown with American arms and support? The flags of Gautemala, of Iran, of Chile. Of countries invaded for no good reason? Raise the flag of Iraq.
Raise them all , Fill the sky…ladies and gentlemen, please rise and take off your hats…..
Opening day....
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