I've seen a lot of people on our side try to tell us we need to abandon our traditions altogether because of all the corrupt people who've tried and sometimes succeeded at hijacking it, even that some of our founders may not have been all we thought they were. I see people acting as if our flag and nationalism is tainted by the cabal and the influence they've had on our history.

Moments like this show me differently. This tells me that we own those traditions. We own that flag. We own that anthem. They were and will always be ours regardless of the origins or what has happened since, and it shows on a level so deep that a child can feel it before they know how to understand it or express it.