BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flag Day GOOD NEWS CALENDAR DTSTAMP:20250619T104129Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:337-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n \n Flag Day <\;june 14th \, June 14\, 1777 the usa  flag was adopted : \"That the flag of the thirteen United States be th irteen stripes\, alternate red and white\; that the union be thirteen star s\, white in a blue field\, representing a new constellation.\">\;- comm emorating the Flag of the usa. IT is not a federal holiday. But\, what do es the USA flag mean to you? I ask for various text or graphics depicting that feeling. Here is some trivia. When is a star supposed to be added whe n a state is added to the union?  \n \n\n\n\n \n https://aalbc.com/tc/b logs/entry/261-flag-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findCo mment&\;comment=905  \n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n STORY\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n In the future\, aside Mons Huygens\, in the capitol of the E.N.U.\, a scho ol for age 6s in district five\, Gandhi Academy\, has Origin Day. The chil dren wait for the box of noted old things from Earth’s past to be reveal ed.  \n\n \n\n A teacher open up the box\, flanked by her peers\, and var ious items are present. Each child in the school’s roster take an item.  \n\n \n\n …\n\n \n\n Marianne look at the storage unit and read from a letter\, by White Feather.\n\n \n\n “My grandfather was told by his gr andfather\, as they opposed the building of a pipeline\, that he remember his son\, my great grandfather\, fighting in the original American Indian Movement. How these white men came and took his son’s daughter one late evening. They found her weeks later two states over in Illinois. Local aut horities or federal authorities never found out who did it. But\, my great grandfather\, with the bow he made\, lived in the street and hunted those men with the old ways. He eventually found those men and murdered them. T he police nor other law enforcement came but the family knew as he told th em how he did it\, and it coincided eerily to the news report. My grandfat her was told this tale during the video presentation you are watching. The AIM flag was not preferred by my great grandfather but after avenging my great grandmother\, he flew it proudly wherever he went”\n\n \n\n\n\n Ge ntle Cougar took out an old photo and read a letter from Candace Nasciment o.\n\n \n\n “My grandmother was a field nurse during world war I. She kn ew about the field from her grandfather\, a former buffalo soldier\, who h ad a forebear that served the British during the united states war of inde pendence. He told her he was forever shamed about his tenure in that unit and she should never serve the USA in any fashion\, giving him the chance to kill for a fantasy. But\, during the war to end all wars\, she saw many of her friends heading off and wanted to join them. And she did. She lost her fiancé in Southern France\, a sander from Louisiana\, deterring the main German offensive. The USA never awarded him. But she survived and was emboldened to be a pan africanists. She wanted to find her way to a Black country. And she is waving the flag in this photo. Some white cops later that month confiscated all the money they had gathered to make a boat with provisions. It broke my grandmother’s heart. But\, she found her husban d\, Rodrigo\, later that year and he was always proud of her waving that f lag\, as he never had saw such an exhibition in Salvador”\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n N'Dule took out a colored photo and read a letter from Georgina Blake Jefferson.\n\n \n\n “My grandmother grew up in the bayou\, in true cajun country. She never finished elementary. And decided to work as a ho use cleaner for the elites in New Orleans. One day\, soon before her eight eenth birthday\, a group of guys from the North were partying for Mardi Gr as. They waited for her to leave her shift and grabbed her. She couldn’t struggle against a group of five men. She learned later\, her brother as a member of Beauregard’s men secretly patrolled new orleans to keep the cajun women safe. And\, even though one had violated her\, before the othe rs could get there turn\, her brother and his friends found the rig of her captors. She never forgot seeing the beauty of the battle flag of norther n virginia on their jackets. It represented a safety the stars and stripes never did\, a pride in being southern. This photo she took at her birthda y party later\, she would always carry a battle flag with her wherever she went”\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Carlos Tenji took out a drawing and read a letter from Madiba Patel.  \n\n \n\n “My grandfather was a refuge and his family chose the usa cause it was the biggest option. Any country in europe seem smaller and already too congested\, and no one spoke chinese o r russian or portuguese. My great grandmother spoke english so that was an assist. My grandfather was an internet millionaire with his roaming cinem a verité. Going around hitchhiking\, taking online viewers on his journey s. This graphic was designed for a government official. Some people were t earing it all down. My grandfather gained a limp trying to stop them. He t old the people\, he wasn’t trying to change them\, but asking them to st op trying to change others. If we learn to live side by side unlikely neig hbors\, neighbors we oppose while we don’t try to change\, we can have t rue peace\, not a deceptive slavery. It took many decades but we finally d id learn how”\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n …\n\n \n\n Other kids presented items from yore but none were flags.\n\n\n\n …If you enjoyed this tale c heck out the others utilizing the links below\n\n Bookbub\n\n https://www. bookbub.com/profile/richard-murray-16885e64-6c28-459e-bf5f-45c7d458ce49\n\ n AALBC\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/blog/29-richard-murray-hearth/\n\n Poetry or More Audiobook\n\n https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=Poetr y%20or%20More&\;fcsearchfield=Series&\;seriesId=06baba96-5af5-5d24-9 b8a-f06360287dc9\n\n Visasiki Audiobook\n\n https://www.kobo.com/us/en/sea rch?query=Visasiki%20Series&\;fcsearchfield=Series&\;seriesId=965aea 81-4e13-53fe-8bc8-22fcb6d28a39\n\n Short Story Collection\n\n https://www. kobo.com/us/en/search?query=Richard%20Murray%20Short%20Story%20Collection& amp\;fcsearchfield=Series&\;seriesId=014c67c4-d29d-584e-ada0-62c0fa0157 14\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250614 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR