Yesterday, we watched the movie “The Patriot”, a story of a composite group of American rebels in the Revolution. Gabriel finds an American flag full of bullet holes, tattered and torn up. As he picks it up, a wounded Continental soldier says, “It’s a lost cause.” Gabriel takes the flag remains and we see him in other scenes patching and sewing it back together. Later, his father rides with it, and when the men see him and the flag, they all cheer. To strive for freedom is no