AMERICAN flag or PUERTO RICAN flag?

[a_carleone]

National Symbol

by Charles Evans Hughes

The flag is the symbol of our national unity, our national endeavor, our national aspiration.

The flag tells of the struggle for independence, of union preserved, of liberty and union one and inseparable, of the sacrifices of brave men and women to whom the ideals and honor of this nation have been dearer than life.

It means America first; it means an undivided allegiance.

It means America united, strong and efficient, equal to her tasks.

It means that you cannot be saved by the valor and devotion of your ancestors, that to each generation comes its patriotic duty; and that upon your willingness to sacrifice and endure as those before you have sacrificed and endured rests the national hope.

It speaks of equal rights, of the inspiration of free institutions exemplified and vindicated, of liberty under law intelligently conceived and impartially administrated. There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness, and rapacity.

It is eloquent of our community interests, outweighing all divergencies of opinion, and of our common destiny.

[Hombre-cuidad]

National Symbol of the NATION of the USA, it is a symbol for Puerto Rico in some ways, but through out the world, the symbol for Puerto Rico as a flag is the Puerto Rican flag, created in 1895 and re-created in 1952. This flag of OURS, is a flag for the story of our INDEPENDENCE, not the USA, because we were never opressed directly by the British as much as the USA, but were by the decendents of the British, the USA! A_Carleone, as much as I love the USA and its symbolic flag for their freedom and democracy, because like it or not, it represents Puerto Rico in the miltary, and officially in the world, but not achknowlegble to our own people who prefer the Puerto Rican flag as their symbola and celebrate, not rhe USA's. You choose the USA flag over Puerto Rico....why?

[Edited by Hombre-cuidad on 10th May 2001 at 02:25]

[Nacionalista]

La bandera de Lares, simbolo de soberia bordada por las hermosas manos de Mariana Bracetti.

Hasta el lareño Jose Feliciano le canta a su bandera.

Yo tengo una bandera de Lares que mi madre mi hizo en el 1968. La tengo en la sala de mi casa en Puerto Rico.

Cada vez que vuelvo a la isla, me siento en la sala a descansar, mirando la bandera de Lares.

Despues de la preciosa Bandera de Puerto Rico, la de Lares es la le sigue en belleza y lineaje.

Todos los diseños de las banderas de los EEUU son bonitas tambien, pero no producen ese sentido en mi corazon que la bandera de nuestra Isla.

Ahora, les pregunto a todos en el foro:

Si les dieran la opcion de solo tener una bandera, y les ofrecen una bandera de los EEUU y una bandera de Puerto Rico, cual ustedes escogerian?

[conciencia]

Nacionalista,

Que tal esta?

[El_Jibaro]

Jujuy..., peru si vamus a tocay la "Borinqueña" al sun de la tambora y en ritmu di Merengue...

[Nacionalista]

Originally posted by conciencia
Nacionalista,

Que tal esta?

WEPA!!!!

[El_Jibaro]

Jujuy..., peru si vamus a tocay la "Borinqueña" al sun de la tambora y en ritmu di Merengue...

La tierry de Quisqueiyi, dundi hi nacidu yo
es un jaiding fluridu di maigicu primoi...