American Flag

i've had mixed feelings about the American flag ever since they lowered it for President Kennedy... it took a beating during the civil rights movement. and then there was Vietnam, all the atrocities, the lies, the wasted deaths... the marches, the protests, the Kent State killings... and the flag was burned in anger, and i understood the anger and now the corporate takeover, the loss of human rights, the loss of dignity, and hope how many deaths does it take? JFK, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King forty thousand plus in Vietnam how many in the lying oil wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? how many homeless and jobless does it take? how many migrant workers treated like animals? how many old people have to lose the benefits they've worked for? and i think back to my old hero, Thomas Jefferson what would he say? maybe something like this: 'the real American flag isnt made of cloth, it's drawn on the backs of the American workers. male and female of all races and religions, the people that built this country the heart blood of this country. when you put these people down with your greed, your lies, your apathy then you lower the flag. and it can never be raised again till all Americans walk heads up together with hope till all have an equal opportunity to live and be in freedom until such day you have no flag! '