inner_states-interview_05

• “She’s a grand ol’ flag. She’s the lady of the country. She gets a little ragged and torn at times and sometimes you’ll see one flyin’ looks a little tufty. She’s had holes blown into her overseas and she’s been burned by kids who don’t know any better. She’s what we place a big part of our freedoms on. She guards our nation and we take her everywhere we go. You’ll find that any battle we’ve ever been in, from the time it started to the time it ended, that flag’s flyin’ - on ships, ground-forces, the flags always there. When a soldier is killed, the flag’s draped over his coffin, and before it goes into the ground they take it off, fold it and give it to his wife. If she is divorced or remarried, she don’t get it. It goes to his dad. Yes sir, the flag’s a big deal.”
“I been drivin’ trucks for forty-five years and have owned one since 1958. My son used to ride double with me, but he’s now driving my truck on his own; a 1980 model with four million miles on it. I now drive for a company called Walpole Inc., based in Tampa, haulin’ quick lime. This company won’t allow us to hang flags on our trucks and fly ‘em off the mirrors and stuff, so I just wear this. My wife made this and put it on my hat.”
“Do you have any idea what the United States has paid for the freedom we have? It didn’t come for nothin’. Most of them Middle Eastern countries are jealous of us. That’s why they’re mad at us - ‘cause we have freedom. But it didn’t come for nothin’, we didn’t just take over these lands and take it away from the Indians and become free. No, we fought for that freedom. That’s what this country was founded on.”
“God loves this country the most. Second is Israel. George W is a born again Christian who loves Jesus and Jesus loves him. God put him where he is and God allowed what happened in New York on 9-11 to wake us up.”