Remembrance and Ritual on Flag Day

Below is an excerpt from my book IF YOU CAN KEEP IT: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty.

Remembrance and Ritual

Another way we can love America is through remembrance and ritual. In fact, rituals often exist specifically to help us remember. In the Old Testament, God repeatedly instructs the Israelites to do things on certain dates and to create monuments, precisely so that they will never forget what they have experienced. He knows that if they remember these things it will be that mu...