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For God and Country No More

October 31, 2007 - 12:00am
By Bill McMorris

Reporting from Bataan in 1942, Army Lieutenant Colonel William Casey told NBC Radio that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” The opposite is now true when soldiers return home. The Department of Veterans Affairs adopted this policy last month when it banned the recitation of “The Meaning of Each Fold of an Honor Guard Funeral Flag” from military burials.

The recitation opens with “The first fold of our Flag is a symbol of life. The second fold is a symbol of our belief in eternal life,” and continues until the flag has been completely folded (13 times in total, one for each of the original colonies).