Flag Day - 2014

If there are unwritten rules that don't make sense ... challenge them and see if ... [you] can change them.
(after Dr. Nancy Andrews in Three Minutes A Day, by The Christophers, Vol. 44, 20 March)
14 July 2014

Flag Day - 14 June 2013

Even under the most crushing state machinery, 

courage rises up again and again, 

for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

(Aung San Suu Kyi, p. 1945, Burma, in Pocket Positives, no page numbering)

14 June 2013

Flag Day - 14 June 2012

The men and women of our armed forces, who've made so many personal sacrifices to serve our country, should only be asked to risk their lives for an absolutely necessary cause, not seductive delusion. (Jane Velez-Mitchell, Addict Nation, p. 253) 14 June 2012