Jeremy Herndon

I think it is very interesting how the elementary school children in the public school system are taught one version of American history and that it takes a very long time for them to learn about all of the “skeletons” in the American closet!  Once they learn about all of the sordid details of the “bad” parts of the American history, it’s a miracle that they have any patriotism left at all!  I think it’s only natural for the college students to become disappointed and disillusioned with the country.

Which is really too bad, because even thought there have been a lot of bad things in the American past, the country IS growing and trying to improve!  The fact that the American President is bi-racial is proof of that growth!  I think that the American flag is going to be getting a lot more respect now that President Obama is making so many positive changes.

We have an American flag that hangs on a bracket attached to a post on our front porch.  It is getting pretty rough looking; I am thinking that it is just about time we got a new one.  I’d like to get a tall flagpole to install in our garden as a centerpiece and put a new flag there.  I think that would look really nice.

I’m not quite sure why people get so weird about Friday the 13th.  Wait a minute, maybe I remember now.  There were 13 people at “The Last Supper” and it was on a Friday, right?  Or am I mis-remembering?  It doesn’t matter, I don’t think that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day at all!  I think that superstitions are so silly!