The change that matters most comes from a schoolboy

The sincere tears of a patriotic child on Monday, November 15, 2010 eclipsed most of the politics-as-usual morning news. On an average but no longer not-so-ordinary school day, the news from Denair, Stanislaus County, Ca, eclipsed even the recent hurtful comments of a president about his own country. And totally eclipsed those unkind cuts against America on the president’s second day back from a mega-million-dollar Asian trip. A schoolboy made manifest American’s growing unease with the anti-American style coming from the White House, moving the punishment of schoolboy patriotism up to the front burner.

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While in India, the president seemed almost gleeful that America is losing its status in the world. Today in front of his school, 13-year-old Cody Alicea was anything but gleeful that love for Old Glory is being challenged by politically correct times. Cody Alicea is average in the way of youngsters whose parents instill in them love for God, country and family. Never in his wildest dreams did Cody imagine he would ever be escorted to school by war veteran bikers, some from out of state, proudly displaying the American flag. But then neither did Cody think that after two months of flying the flag on the back of his bicycle that he would be ordered by school authorities one day after Veteran’s Day to remove it--even though Cody, like many other youngsters in his age group, must attend class in a school system fraught with Marxist indoctrination. This was not to be just another flag flap an apology and time could erase from public conscience. Cody led a parade in his honour from the center of his hometown of Denair this morning to his middle school campus, where he was joined by supporters who recited the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the national anthem. In the end not only did Cody with his proud flag ride into American hearts, he held up what so many paid for with their lives and what so many left will always continue to hold dear. Let it be recorded that change in America comes not from a politician, but from a 13-year-old boy whose love for his country is like Old Glory itself, bravely unwavering.