At military funerals, it has been a tradition if requested by the family for the honor guard to fold the flag that covered the veteran’s coffin 13 times and to recite a script developed by veterans’ groups that suggests an inspirational meaning for each fold.

The Proponents of the ban identify what they consider offensive language in the eleventh and twelfth folds and readings.

Presently, our legal system is considering motions filed by the families of dead soldiers and those filed by protestors at funerals and proponents of the ban.

The issue is freedom, specifically the right of every soldier to practice religion. A soldier has the right to “Script Recitals” and it is the duty of all Americans to assert the rights of all citizens especially when citizens themselves cannot. Isn’t there a way to resolve this issue? Allow soldiers indicate in a will and testament as to their last wishes and whether or not they want the service that is traditional or non-secular.

It is the religious right of those that just died to protect and defend our country that we must not offend nor violate. Any movement to eliminate traditional practices must be tempered by the rights of individual soldiers to practice freely any religion regardless of whether or not it offends even a majority of the people.

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The battle for our right to free exercize is just beginning. We found out about the VA ban just a day or two after the directive was received by Rees Lloyd. It took hell to get anyone to pick up the news, and most of the media deliberately refused to even consider the story, while the VA went into hyper spin-mode, denying they had issued such a directive until that letter was released.

Now they say it was an “internal memo, not intended for the public – and as such have no comment”.

The ACLU and the secularists are not going to stop until all vestiges of God and faith are expunged and removed from public.

Then, they will go after private exercise – as has been history’s hallmark.

Thanks for pointing folks to the news.