I love the way your song “The Flag” pays homage to those who have sacrificed for this countries freedom &
speaks of the things about “The Good old days”. I’m aware, as I’m sure you are, things weren’t perfect, but we
can learn from history & keep the best parts, there were so many great things from that time & mind set. I kind of
miss when you often heard, “Yes Sir” & “No thank you Mam”. The song made me think of that too. It makes me
want to ask many people, do you believe in the American way of life with its’ traditional values, in its’ melting pot
wonderful culture, formed from years of entrepreneurial enterprise, at times struggle & strife, of reasonable
compromises of many hard working people & its’ treasured iconic American symbols? Those ones, that
nowadays it seems, if you stand up for their right to exist, religious or not, you are often labeled a backward
thinking nut. Ever feel we might be getting pushed around a little, for the sake of political correctness, in our own
country by some of our latest immigrants, at times very presumptuously and with the help of some of our less
than enlightened citizens, that it maybe includes an agenda for the remolding America to suit their extreme views
without regard to majority of Americans views or welfare. Does it seem that some of the last to arrive feel entitled
to rearranged things in the USA to suit the whims of a culture they left behind, in a homeland they chose to leave
to come to America. What happened to respect for the long held tradition, when emigrating to America meant
assimilating into its’ culture, learning its’ laws, traditions (even respecting them) & yes learning its’ language?
“English”. Question...Don’t even try the math unless you were the wiz kid of all time! How many billions have
been spent on translators & multi or bilingual directions for just about everything by all the government & private
run institutions & industries ie; prisons, DMVs where people get licenses to drive on streets they can’t read the
street signs of, the hospitals, factories, schools, (with the necessary changes to be politically correct & follow the
now mandated laws) on & on etc…Have you been to court of any kind lately & seen all the tax payer paid
translators with a job, pretty cool ? Have you ever seen the well documented pictures of immigrants from the
Ellis Island era who after getting to America, went standing in line to take English speaking classes? Nowadays
there’s Rosetta stone language training that NASA, The US army, The State Dept.& fortune 500 companies use to
teach people a second language quite easily & inexpensively! There’s not much of an excuse these days for not
learning the language of the land. I’m sure if they asked, the non-English speaking people entering The USA
would get
"The Rosetta Stone" DVDs & players, from the US Government, on our dime. It would preserve a little bit of
America & be a lot less expensive than the billions that have been wasted on the status quo. Not counting all of
the other things one can think of, do you think that just the changing out of every bank machine in the USA &
then setting up of press 1 for English phone systems has cost as much as the gross national product of many
countries we give food to that then, with no provisions or help with birth control, continue to over populate &
come to America?
Bill
Texas



On behalf of AMVETS Post 2000, I would
like to say thank you and commend you for
the effort taken to help Veterans and help
return America to real Americans such as
you and I. You are absolutely right when
you say that support for Veterans has been
on the decline for a long time and, like you,
we at AMVETS are working to help change
that. To me, there are few things more
satisfying than a person coming up to me
with hand extended and saying, "thank you
for your service". I especially get a kick out
of it when a kid does that. I think "Another
real American in the making!"
I will pass this along to the membership at
our next meeting, as well as your CD offer,
and pass along your kind words of
gratitude, and thank you for helping to keep
the American way going! May God truly
bless you and yours.
Commander Mark Weippert
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I have a son in the US Marine
Corps and he is stationed in
Iraq. I am also a Blue Star
Mother of America and a
teacher's aide in a Sr. High
school. I just want to thank you
from the bottom of my heart for
this song!
I see the students who are so
disrespectful everyday during
the pledge and it breaks my
heart, especially because my
son is in such grave danger at
all times just to allow them the
freedom to not stand and do
the pledge! Even if I say
something, it does no good.
Most of what they do comes
from their home life.
So, I thank you for such a
beautiful song and I hope it can
be heard across this great
nation, especially this
important weekend - Memorial
Day.
God Bless our men and
women who are fighting for our
freedom and for those who
have lost their lives. And God
Bless you for seeing this!
Joanne
New York
Thank you very much for
the email and links to the
song. I am having our
webmaster post it on our
web site. We all here at
American Legion Post 73
were and are proud to
serve our country and
everyone's right to be free.
Again thank you and I
hope all the best.
Commander Debbie
Allinder
Oklahoma
I have called a lot of
servicemen and women
today to thank them for
serving this great country of
ours and you are the only
person who has thanked me
today. I will never forget!
"Capt. Crunch"
Florida
Thank you for letting me know about this wonderful song. I will definitely spread the
word about it .
Much easier to get the song known if I have it to play for people. I will also call a friend
of mine that just so happens to be a DJ for the local Country station here and ask him to
play it. Hopefully they will have it. If not, I will let him know how to get it.
Please pass my most heartfelt thanks to Jeff and Steve for writing such a wonderful
song. May you all have a wonderful Memorial Day!
Barbara - New York
Wow, praise the
Lord, that is
awesome, it
should be played
on every radio
station across this
nation, thank you.
Mark -
A.L. Chapt 5,
New Mexico
Just wanted to thank you for this
wonderful song, I have been working
with our wounded, injured and
critically ill service members since
2003 and those words are exactly right!
I pray that America will wake up and
see the light and treat our Veterans
with the respect and honor so
rightfully due them.
Thank you and I hope this song makes
it big!
Peggy
Operation First Response
ON BEHALF OF OTHER
ATOMIC/NUCLEAR VETS, I THANK
YOU FOR YOUR EXPRESSION OF
COMPASSION FOR OUR
DEDICATED SERVICE TO OUR
COUNTRY IN TIME OF GREAT
NEED. I AM SHARING YOUR
MESSAGE WITH OTHER
VETERANS IN OUR ORGANIZATION
WHO WERE ALSO A PART OF THE
EFFORTS TO PROTECT AND
DEFEND OUR COUNTRY.
Bernie
Atomic/Nuclear Veterans
Thank you for your kind words. I am the
webmaster of our website
(http://legion526.com) and am interested in
getting the MP3 file so I can try and get the
song up on our website. I don't know if you
visited our website but I am trying to give
anyone who visits rememberence and
continued patriotic drive.
Jackie
Ohio
Thank you very much for your
kind words and for taking the
time to express your gratitude.
I really like the new song & will
pass along the below email &
website to our association
membership.
Good luck with the song and I’m
looking forward to hearing much
more.
GOD Bless & Semper Fidelis,
KEN
North Carolina
Let us all remember in our hearts
that if we do not respect the Flag
then we show disrespect to the
soldiers who have died defending
our country and spreading freedom
for anyone who desires freedom
and self-respect and honor! Anyone
who wants to be the president of the
United States should wear the
symbol of freedom and honor our
men and women who died for our
country defending the Flag of the
United States of America!
Ron - Florida
I love this and couldn't agree more and think it is a shame that
America can't be proud to still stand on what it was built upon.
Thank you guys and I will try and get out some emails as soon as I
can. It is truly a shame that the very thing American was built upon
and the things it stood for are the very things that in some ways are
trying to be taken away today.
Thank you again and I hope many read and listen, beautiful job:)
Much love to you both,
Ginger:)
xoxo
We curl up in our warm beds at night,
free to say what we want, free to go
where we want, free to buy our ipods,
remember some one died to give you
that.
And to those ignorant enough to burn
our flag, you are not imprisioned,
tortured or executed for this.....
and the reason for that is symbolized by
the flag (freedom), pretty hypocritical.
Delores
Idaho
Thank you so much for your email,
I rarely look into things that people
send to me but I'm so glad that I
did. By the time I got through the
America the Beautiful portion on
the long version I was in tears.
Your song is so beautifully put, and
is so needed for this country right
now! We need more moral fiber in
all ages. My prayers are with you
both and I will definitely be calling
my radio staions!
M.C.
Arizona
Commander Mark McLaughlin US NAVY
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Here (above) is a picture my youngest son Andrew
brought home from school, he said he made it for "THE
FLAG" song. With all (if having the Pledge at all) at
least they still have it at his school.
I remember when I was growing up, there was alot more
respect for everything, we have lost so much. I wish that
my children could grow up in the world that I grew up in.
Everything has become so materialistic and the
teachings of "RIGHT AND WRONG" are changing to
"ANYTHING GOES," our whole society has lost its way.
We, who are old enough, can remember a different day.
The really bad part about our current situation is that it is
threatening to get alot worse, many young people don't
realize what's at stake.
We need to go back to our roots and our values and
those of the Founding Fathers, to stand up for, and to
remember, what made
"This nation under God with liberty and justice for all."
I pray that more people will wake up before it's too late.
"THE FLAG" has a very important statement that it is
making, I wish every American could hear it and be
reminded of what a great nation we have been so
blessed to grow up in and how important it is to keep
our liberty and not take it for granted like so many
people do.
I'm afraid that many people will only understand what
they had after its gone.
Angela
Registered Nurse
Washington

The 4th of July is one of my
favorite holidays. I get to know
more about what Independence
Day
really means because of the
song "The "Flag"
Christina, now age 11
I can't tell you how this touched my
soul. I sat and cried as I listened to
this. The moral compass of the
United States is in great peril. I hope
people really listen to this song as it
is such a great reminder of how
things used to be and ought to stay.
We live in the greatest country in the
world and it is of vital importance
that people remember how we got
here.
Loriann
Washington
Totally Rockin' Guys!!
This is exactly what everyone in this
Country needs to see and hear.
Americans singing and feeling what
this Country is all about, and
expressing what this Country was
built on and how it should stay that
way, not changing for ANYONE FOR
ANY REASON. Thank you for being
who you are and singing out what we
all should be. This song says it all, and
no-one could have done it any better.
Great job!! EVERYONE,
EVERYWHERE, CALL YOUR LOCAL
RADIO STATIONS, DO IT FOR OUR
CHILDREN!
This Song couldnt have been written
Better!This was said and sang so
well,As there is so many who want to
be in this Great Country and Yet thay
want US to change for Them,ITS
Wrong,This is what We are Fighten in
other countries for FREEDOM,and
NOT TO CHANGE IT HERE,Please
call YOUR local Radio Station and
Have them play this song,ITS to the
Lyric's,,THIS IS AMERICA STAND UP
FOR WHATS RIGHT.THANK YOU
GUYS SO MUCH FOR A
WONDERFUL SONG,SEND TO THE
RADIO STATION
I just heard about you
this morning and about
the Flag song. Way to
go guys, love your
song!!!
Debbie
Some food for thought, for the critics of their own country and their pals from
elsewhere who share their same ideals and hopes for its demise. Those who
show complete disrespect for "The Flag of The United States of America, "OLD
GLORY" and the freedom loving country for which it stands. It's a republic, that is
one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. America is not a perfect
nation. No country in this complex world can achieve that. The U. S. government
has not always done exactly what's correct in either domestic or foreign affairs,
but many of the people in it have tried to do that. Many people don't know that
the American Government gives out more foreign aid than any other nation on
earth, often to the people of countries whos governments don't like the U.S. Also
U.S. citizens, (made up of heritages from all over the world), privately give more
than any other people on the planet, when less fortunate ones around the world
are stricken by natural disasters and other misfortune. This does not make us
better than anyone else, for one thing we have much to give, but it does show
basic good heartedness. On another subject, just think what the world would be
like if the U.S.A. had not been there in WWII, when England and her allies were
just hanging on. With America joining in the fight with it's industry and
serviceman risking and giving their lives, it stopped the dictatorial regimes in
Europe and the East from conquering and enslaving most of the world. Then
after winning the war the U.S. didn't enslave these countries that lost, but helped
them rebuild and to be free and prosperous nations. Would the other side have
done the same? Do you think S. Korea would like to have been over taken by the
attacking communists from the north in 1951. From 1951 to 1953 many tens of
thousands of a Americans gave their lives there to stop that from happening and
still guard the border to the north to this day. No peace treaty was ever signed,
just a ceasefire. Now S. Korea is a free and prosperous country, but just to the
north is a nut job dictator running N. Korea, a man who spends what little his
country has on himself, his closest buds, who surely fear him and his army, while
the masses live in squalor. Imagine this, if America had not stood eye ball to eye
ball with the communists for a ½ century of the cold war…what might have
happened ? During this time many American pilots died in the Berlin airlift.
There's never been much mention of there sacrifice when the Soviets cut off W.
Berlin in 1948 leaving millions of people to starve and freeze. The U.S. didn't start
a nuclear war, but at it's own expense and with many lives & planes lost, flew in
thousands of tons of supplies to W. Berlin from 1948 to 1949 till the Russians
finally gave up and reopened the city. There have been countless other times
America has come to other peoples' aid. Sure America hasn't always got it just
right, but it tries and where would the world be with out it. The U.S.
acknowledges and tries to make up for the obscenities of the slavery of Africans
in the 17 and 18 hundreds and the terrible walking over of native Americans
rights that took place also. As well as the ridiculousness time it took to pass laws
giving women equal rights to vote etc...In spite of these errors in judgment and
morals by some in the past in a time gone by and even some pretty lame ideas of
some of the less than enlightened today, America is a noble nation. With much to
it's credit! On another issue some people and groups nowadays try to use
Americas' freedoms to find loop holes for dummy corporations and so called no-
profit organizations to raise money in America and funnel it right back to terrorist
groups that have attacked and openly called for Americas' destruction. This is
lunacy and maybe some loop holes should be closed. We all have voices, the
right to vote, email, telephone, and pester our elected officials, if we say and do
nothing at all, it is impart "our fault" if things don't get better regarding this. On
the grand scale of things I'm glad and proud to be an American and frankly can't
see how the world would have survived the dangerous 20th century with out it.
For the zealous critics of America, its traditions, values and culture, answer this.
If America is so bad, then why is it that, more than any other country on earth, it's
bursting at the seams with people trying to get in …both legally…and illegally?
…and be Americans…They don't have this problem
in Cuba!
American Citizen
This was said and sang so well, as
there is so many who want to be in
this great country and yet they want
the US to change for them, it's
wrong. This is what we are fighting
for in other countries for,
FREEDOM, and NOT TO CHANGE IT
HERE.
It's awesome and it has such Great
meaning to the lyrics. THIS IS
AMERICA, STAND UP FOR WHAT's
RIGHT. Thanks you guys for such a
wonderful song, send to the radio
station.
From "meandmygrandkids"
I listened to The Flag, it is a
beautiful song. Love it.
Myspace friend.
Don't get me started on
politics, because I would
love for you to come and
scoop up all the illegals we
have in Cali.
Loved the music, keep
singing. Why don't you
send a tape to the White
House, I'm sure some of the
politicians would love to
listen to Americans views.
American Citizen,
California
I absolutely believe in "THE FLAG" and
what the USA used to stand for. I definitely
want to see it get back to that!
I am actually looking into going back into
the military, imagine that at 39 years old,
married with 5 children and going back to
the military to serve God and Country!?!?!
Be Blessed,
David
Your Song "The Flag,"
well I can't even begin to
say in words how great it
is!!!
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God Bless you guys for saying the things
about Francis Scott Key and the story of
our National Anthem... I get choked up every
time I hear it.
People always thank us (service members)
for what we do...I think it's people like you
that deserve the thanks as well. While we
may face physical dangers, it's people like
you & my friend Gracie who have taken up
the cause of supporting us & help us to
remember that there are people in our
country that understand the sacrifices
being made... that LOVE our country as
much as we do...true patriots, united by
something greater than all of us. I only hope
there are enough of you to keep everything I
hold dear from falling apart.
God Bless you and our country.
Most Sincerely,
LCDR John M. USN
Stopping in to tell you that
"THE FLAG"
heard. GOD Bless you and
the USA.
Hugs of friendship.
Mary D.
Massuchusetts
P.S. I don't remember much
about my dad, but I do
remember the flag folded in
perfection, given to my
mother. A flag we still
treasure today.
I just love the video. Would you mind if I put it on my bulletin? I think we all need to hear this. Brings pride in all of us for this free land of ours. No one has the freedom as we have. Senaf, Florida
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I love your song. We need more
flag and what it stands for.
Glenna,
North Carolina
The joker and penguin all
of them
Well I am not here to
speak of them tonite
I would tell you about the
ridlers men
If you go to check out
their page
And happen to hear a
song
Its like they are on stage
You can sing right along
The Flag they wrote is
awesome you see
You should go listen and
hear the plans
The Flag's about freedom,
for you and me
The flag is a tribute to all
americans
During these hard times
it's what we need
They are an inspiration to
all
Go friends take a listen its
great indeed
Remember all who took a
fall
Freedom, the Flag
Americans
May God Bless them all
Theresa Kuznetz (C)2008
I LOVE "THE FLAG" LISTEN TO IT MORE
THAN ONCE TODAY..KEEP IT UP BEST!!
BIG HUGS TO BOTH OF YOU..
Louise,
Alabama
Love the song.
Love the lyrics.
Love this Nation.
Love our flag.
God bless you.
Buddy
The Flag...
missiom acomplished.
Job well done. When we stand and sallute our flag
and recite the pledge, its becuse of our gallant
warriors such as the heroes, that we have, the
freedoms that we enjoy...
This goes for your dad he played a big part
too...rest in peace. Your family and country will
allways be proud of you. Thank you Jeff & Steve for
being my friend.....
Carolyn,
South Carolina
Anyone wants to burn the Flag invite them
to wrap themselves in it. You guys have a
Pamela
I hope you guys have a great week.
Pamela,
Oklahoma