Don’t Tread on Me

In an excellent piece at Townhall.com, W. Thomas Smith Jr. reminds Americans that the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and bumper stickers have a patriotic historical background, not the “Rightwing extremist” symbol our government would have us believe.

Read the article here.

Subversive? Hardly.

An unapologetic expression of pride in – and love for – American independence and the kind of defiant, can-do-despite-the-odds courage exhibited throughout history in places with names like Lexington, Yorktown, Fredericksburg, Bastogne, Hue, and Fallujah?

You bet.

I will be flying the Gadsden flag from my front porch as soon as it arrives.