Veterans Day
Posted by admin on Tuesday Nov 11, 2008 Under Mom's LifeLast night my daughter asked me to go to school with her in the morning for a Veterans Day Remembrance the school had planned. So I went. We did some negotiating on what I had to wear. I didn’t want to get my uniform ready so it was decided that due to my willingness to suffer through a school event I could wear whatever I wanted. I didn’t look shabby don’t worry.
The whole thing was pretty nice until I had to go stand at the flag pole per Moses. “Mommy I really want you up there with the other mommies and daddies in the military”… how can you say no? So off I went marching through the grass with my 3 yr old on my hip. She decided, the 3 yr old that is to throw a mild tantrum, only loud enough for half the school to hear. Before I even got to the flag pole the heels of my poorly chosen purple boots had dug about 50 holes into the grass. Nice. So there I stood, watching the boyscouts shout out commands and raising the colors. So cute. It was sweet to watch their faces as they carried out a very important task in front of their peers. Everything went well until, the Fat Ass of a VP decided that the flag wasn’t going up properly and shoved the little boy out of the way to fix it. Um, that could have been done later! He ruined the whole thing! That’s just my opinion, I don’t think the kids noticed but you could tell there were some uniformed personnel there ready to Bitch slap the VP for 1. ruining the moment and 2. making the whole procession last roughly 5 minutes.
It wasn’t terrible, I’m glad I went just for my little girl. It was nice to hear them sing and wave their little flags. Also I had no idea that there was a Texas Pledge of Allegiance. Here it is:
“Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.”
