Brethren:
Meaning of a Flag Draped Casket
This is the first of a two part article!
All Americans should be given this lesson. Those who think that America is an arrogant nation should really reconsider that thought.
Our founding fathers used God's word and teachings to establish our Great Nation and it's time Americans were educated about this Nation's history.
Pass it along and be proud of the country we live in and even more proud of those who serve to protect our "God Given" rights and freedoms. Understand what the flag draped casket really means. Here is how to understand the flag that laid upon it and is surrendered to so many widows and widowers.
Did you know that at military funerals, the 21 -gun salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776?
Did you know after a military funeral there are Thirteen Folds completed by an Honor Guard. You probably thought it was to symbolize the original 13 colonies, but we leam something new every day! See next months Secretary's column. (Copied)
Fraternally,
Norm Furman, Secretary
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A Bag of Tools
Here is a poem by R. Lee Sharpe often used to close a program "The Conduct Disordered Child." It is from the book Masterpieces of Religion Verse, edited by James Dalton Morrison (Harper, 1948).
Thanks go to Steve Marx for finding this reference. Many individuals have known and used this poem in various versions, but was not able to locate it in print for years.
Tom Lagana of Wilmington, Delaware, has noted this poem was also included in the book "Poems that Touch the Heart," which was compiled by A. L. Alexander (Doubleday, 1941 and 1956).
Masons are also thankful to Cindy Van Etta who has passed on an extensive history of R. Lee Sharpe, to whom she is related. He was bom in the 1870s and died in the 1950s. For years he worked with his father, Edwin R. Sharpe, who owned The Carrollton Free Press and a printing shop in Carrollton, Georgia. In his later years he traveled a lot, mostly freelancing for magazines of the '20s and '30s.
