Let Us Raise the Flag

Happy Flag Day Everyone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Kjgfq-7PQ&feature=player_embedded

Watching this video has inspired me to contemplate the state of our country at this time.
I believe there are many people out there who fear God, who try to live good lives, and who still stand for our freedoms.

I hope that we can all remember what it really means to be free, and to stand for something.  Flag Day reminds me of a passage of scripture in the Book of Mormon:  At the time in the Americas, there were two major groups of people, the Lamanites and the Nephites.  The Nephites were usually considered the people who feared God and tried to live righteously.  Your traditional story of good versus evil.  :)  At this time, though, the Nephites were starting to get a little bit selfish and haughty, and they began fighting amongst themselves, some trying to raise themselves above others and declare themselves "kings", even though their government was not ran by a kingship, but it had leaders somewhat similar to what we have in America today.  So the Captain of the Military, Moroni, got to action.  He was a very inspirational man, and desired freedom for everyone, not to be ruled by some dictatorship, especially a king who thought he was higher than everyone else.  So he pulled together his resources,....

Alma 46:
 12  And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
13  And he fastened on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land—

36 And it came to pass also, that he caused the title of liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land, which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites.

I love this scripture!  It is so inspiring.  He collected so many people by doing this, by inciting an uprising against those who sought to take away the freedom that they had so dearly loved.  They ended up banning together and banishing those who were getting too high and mighty for their own good, and the country was reminded of their dependence on God and what they should be standing for.  How amazing!

Happy Flag Day, and I hope we can all remember this great lesson!