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OPINION
34 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
NOVEMBER 2002
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■ didn’t sleep very well that night many
■ years ago. I kept tossing and turning
I because I was feeling really guilty. I had
not deliberately done something wrong,
but it had happened and I was haunted by
the image all night long. The memory
goes back to the fourth grade. I had been
t selected with my best friend to raise and
lower the flag at Park Addition School,
and from the beginning the enormity of
the responsibility had been drummed into
us. We had learned how to fold and store
the flag; we had learned the proper way to
attach and raise it each morning; the prin-
cipal had told the whole school how
important the flag was as a symbol of the
United States, stressing repeatedly that
the flag should never touch the ground.
Patriotism was high because just a few
months earlier the bombing of Pearl
Harbor had thrust the United States into
war. President Roosevelt’s frequent radio
addresses to the country had not fallen on
deaf ears. I was ready to do anything my
country needed me to do. So being one of
the flag boys had quickened my passion
for my country and war.
A strong north wind had been raging
when Don and I had gone to the play-
ground to lower the flag. Don was operat-
ing the rope, and I had just caught the cor-
ner of the flag so that I could hold it until
we loosened it from the rope. A gust of
wind and a collision with a running first-
grader tore the flag from my hand and
thrust it into the dirt
and mud. Don and I
recovered the flag
and cleaned it before
folding it We had
heavy spirits as we
walked home in the
snow that was begin-
ning to fall. We
agreed that we had
to tell the principal
what had happened.
What kept me
awake was not the
prospective meeting
with the principal,
but the awarenes
that I had soiled the
flag and thus the honor of the United
States. To my boy’s mind, I was as bad as
traitors I had read about in history.
Although more than half a century has
passed since that night, I still feel the
oppressive sense of guilt as I recall the
shame and humiliation at having failed to
do what I had been chosen to do. After all
these years, I love my country as much as
I did in the fourth grade. I am fascinated
by the infinite variety of the land, the peo-
ple, the diversity, and the resources. Even
when I am discouraged by failed leader-
ship and increasing moral corruption, the
ideal of all people being equal and having
a government of and by the people stirs
my intellectual admiration and my emo-
tional devotion.
At critical times like these, however, I
nation was blessed
to have been con-
ceived by visionary
men who knew the
greatest ideas in
western thought.
H^flK7fOur nation is
‘,j51 Bily Ab.fl blessed by founding
r | c patriots who valued
/ I freedom over the
■ power to dominate.
g I love my country
as mut'h as 1 did
W | when I was haunted
by letting her flag
• - hit the ground. I
have lived long
enough to know the
faults of my country, but I am also experi-
enced enough to know just how mar-
velous the political design is that gives all
of us so much personal freedom. This is
my country and it has provided me with
opportunities and abundance I could have
no other place. But citizens of the United
States are not God’s people anymore than
people all around the world. This land is
not the Promised Land and not the
dwelling place of God.
I am proud to be an American, but I am
striving to be sure that I value my citizen-
ship in the Kingdom of heaven as my
first love.
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have to remind myself that the United
States is just another nation. I confess that
sometimes I start viewing this country as
the modern parallel to Israel. Our abun-
dant resources and our
wealth suggest that we
must be highly favored by
God. Our world leadership
draws me into thinking
that we are the chosen
people. The strength of
the U.S. churches further
deludes me into thinking
that this is the New
Jerusalem, the dwelling
place of Jehovah God.
Awareness that India
and Africa have as many
members of churches of Christ as the
United States drives home the reality that
in the future the thrust for world evange-
lism may come from some other place.
The nation’s growing secularism and its
antipathy for Christianity and moral values
force me to acknowledge that we are not a
stronghold for the righteous or a dwelling
place for God’s holy presence.
The planes’ flying into the World Trade
Center is not parallel to the Roman army’s
assault on the temple in Jerusalem. Our
nation is not spoken of in Scripture and it
is not the subject of prophecy. Our nation
has the benefits of having been discov-
ered and populated late so that the abun-
dant resources are still available. Our
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