Welcome to:

OPERATION RED, WHITE AND BLUE

  

Honoring:

THE UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA

    

Through the introduction of:

Inspirational and Motivational

Patriotic Programs and Ceremony

 

My fellow Americans

within the confines of this website

you will understand why our country

is truly the greatest nation in the world.

And why we as a blest and grateful nation

should acknowledge, appreciate and respect

 Our Creator

And

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans

Our true American Patriots Our true American Heroes

Made up of all races, colors and creeds

Who have preserved our great Republic

Who have upheld the undeniable principles for which she stands

And Who have defended the unalienable rights to which all people are endowed with their service and sacrifice

 
 
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UNITED STATES MARINES

U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945

THE FEW.  THE PROUD.

 

 

 

 

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UNITED STATES FIRE FIGHTERS

U.S. Fire Fighters raising the American flag, Ground Zero, September 11, 2001

THE BRAVEST

 

 

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OLD GLORY

 

You are:

The most singular The most significant

The most superlative The most sublime The most sacred

Flag in all the world

 

You symbolize the true essence of:

America, Americanism and American Patriotism

 

You are the symbol of:

The Greatest Nation in the World

The land of the free and the home of the brave

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

Your elegant and ever-meaningful colors of:

RED

Defines: Courage, Zeal, Strength and the Lifeblood of Patriotic Americans

WHITE

Defines: Honor, Morality, Purity in Word and Deed, Cleanness of Life and Rectitude of Conduct

BLUE

Defines: Faith in God, Liberty, Justice, Vigilance, Perseverance, Loyalty, Friendship, Responsibility and Truth

 

You are the symbol of:

The fundamental and undeniable principles for which America stands:

HONOR - To be Good LIBERTY - To be Free

EQUALITY - To be One JUSTICE - To be Fair HUMANITY - To be Kind

 

You are the symbol of:

OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

We hold these truths to be self-evident

That all people are created equal / That all people are made the same

With a Heart!  And a Soul!  With a Body!  And a Mind!

That no one is better than you are / That you are no better then someone else

That it is wrong to bully someone else

That it is wrong to make-fun-of someone else

  

That all people are endowed by their Creator

With certain unalienable, natural, rights

That among these natural rights are:

LIFE

The right for all people to Live

LIBERTY

The right for all people to be Free

And the pursuit of HAPPINESS

The right for all people to be Happy

 

You are the symbol of:

OUR CONSTITUTION

The supreme law of our land

The embodiment of democratic principles

And the basic instrument of our government

Founded upon the essential rights of all people

With the promise that those essential rights

Will be respected and protected

 

You are the symbol of:

Our Creator

Our Country - The United States of America

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans who founded our country

and the fundamental and undeniable principles for which she stands

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans who have served and who are serving our great country

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American POW's and MIA's still unaccounted-for

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans who risk their lives everyday for our country

Commendable Veterans

Dedicated Police Officers and Fire Fighters

Dependable First Aid and Ambulance Personnel

Loving Parents

Devoted Principals and Teachers

The Mentally and Physically Challenged

Younger Americans and Senior Citizens

Honest Workers and Selfless Volunteers

Oneself by being an Honorable Person and Upright Citizen

All truehearted Americans

 

You are the symbol of:

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American men and women

Our true American Patriots Our true American Heroes

Made up of all races, colors and creeds

Who have given and who are giving unselfishly of themselves in service to our country

To save us!  To help us!  To support us!  And To protect us

To protect our basic rights and the basic rights of all people

And to defend our country and the principles for which she stands

 

You are the symbol of:

The greatest military in the world

The Armed Forces of the United States:

The United States Navy

The United States Marine Corps

The United States Army

The United States Air Force

The United States Coast Guard

The United States Merchant Marines

The Army National Guard

The Air National Guard

 

You are the symbol of:

The greatest Public Safety in the world

The Police Department of the United States

The Fire Department of the United States

The First Aid and Ambulance Corps of the United States

 

You are the symbol of:

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans

Our true American Patriots Our true American Heroes

made up of all races, colors and creeds

Who have served and who are serving our country

Preserving our great Republic,

Upholding the undeniable principles for which we stand

And Defending the unalienable rights to which all people are endowed

With their service and sacrifice in the following wars' and conflicts':

The Revolutionary War

The Indian Wars

The War of 1812

The Mexican-American War

The United States Civil War

The Spanish-American War

World War I

World War II

The Korean War

The Vietnam War

The Bay of Pigs

Beirut Conflict

Bosnia Conflict

Granada Conflict

Haiti Conflict

Operation Allied Force

Operation Anaconda

Operation Desert Fox

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Enduring Freedom

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Panama Conflict

Persian Gulf Conflict

Somalia Conflict

 

You are the symbol of:

Our Honorable and Courageous / Gracious and Incomparable

Patriotic American Women

Our true American Patriots Our unsung American Heroines

Who have served and who are serving our country with steadfast devotion

Not only in the Armed Forces and Public Safety of our United States, but also in civilian life

Who through her bounty of abiding strength and gentle courage

Has mothered and safeguarded:

Honor Liberty Equality Justice and most assuredly Humanity

 

You are the symbol of:

Our Honorable Gold Star Mothers Our Sublime American Patriots

Our Honorable Gold Star Wives Our Superb American Patriots

All Our Honorable Women who have worked and who are working in:

Our Public Education, Our Public Service

Our Ladies Auxiliary, Our American Red Cross, Our USO, Our Special Services

Our Defense Department and/or Our Defense Plants Our true American Patriots

All Our Honorable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives, Aunts, Nieces - Girlfriends of:

American Servicemen and/or Public Safety Personnel Our True American Patriots

 

You are the symbol of:

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American Prisoners of War

Our extraordinary American Patriots Our extraordinary American Heroes

You are the symbol of:

All the suffering they endured in service to our country that is beyond human comprehension.

You are the symbol of:

All who suffered, who are suffering and who have died, mercilessly at the hands of the enemy.

You are the symbol of:

All Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American Prisoners-of-War, living and dead

And our reverent and ever-faithful recognition

To all Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American Prisoners-of-War and Missing-in-Action

Still unaccounted-for and the many who never came home, never came home.

We are home. 

They can never and shall never-be-forgotten.

 

You are the symbol of:

The hundreds and hundreds of thousands of:

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans

Our true American Patriots Our true American Heroes

Made up of all races, colors and creeds

Who sacrificed their lives, their loves, and their possessions for our country in the line-of-duty

You are the symbol of:

The noblest character of:

Our American Soldier, Sailor, Airmen/women and Marine

And there are none so brave

A supreme patriot who made the supreme sacrifice

All for Our Creator, Our Country and Thee

You are the symbol of:

Our Loyal Patriots

Our Outstanding Citizens

Our Brave Warriors

Our Unyielding Defenders

Our Real Champions

Our Faithful Guardians

Our Blessed Martyrs

You are the symbol of:

Their service and sacrifice

You are the symbol of:

Their suffering and death - blood, sweat and tears

You are the symbol of:

The most splendid reality they have made for you and me

And millions upon millions of Americans

To possess a magnificent birthright

And the bountiful satisfaction

Of living in a country that is Free and Just

You are the symbol of:

Their supreme patriotism

You are the symbol of:

Our wholehearted and everlasting gratitude

 

You are:

Our Flag

OLD GLORY

 

 

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My fellow Americans
That which is not loved - withers and dies!
 
Patriotism is love, support and defense of one's country.
  
American Patriotism is love for the Americans who founded our country
and the fundamental and undeniable principles for which she stands:
HONOR - To Be Good LIBERTY - To Be Free
EQUALITY - To Be One JUSTICE - To Be Fair HUMANITY - To Be Kind
American Patriotism is love for the Americans who uphold our principles
and love for the Americans who defend our country.
American Patriotism is loyal support for our very American principles.
And American Patriotism is defense of our country:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
 

“Patriotism means to stand by the country.  It does not mean to stand by the President.”

                                                                                         ~ Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President (1901-1909)

 

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, right or wrong,

- is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public”

                                                                                         ~ Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President (1901-1909)

 

A principle is a fundamental truth,
a guide for good behavior by which one directs one’s life.
Our American Principles and Values are one and the same.
Our American Principles show us the way:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good Character!
And To be - All That We Can Be by Learning and Respecting!
 
 “Our American Principles and Honorable Americans are what make our country great.
Our American Principles and Honorable Americans are what American Patriotism is all about.”
                                                                                                                            ~ Petty Officer Jim Cava, USN Ret.
 
“It is of utmost importance to separate the Honorable Principles America stands-for
from the dishonorable and unprincipled behavior of some Americans.
For the Honorable Principles America stands-for have absolutely nothing to do
with the dishonorable and unprincipled behavior of some Americans.” 
                                                                                                                         ~ Petty Officer Jim Cava, USN Ret.
 
  American Patriotism was the Honorable Spirit of our forefathers
based upon an absolute moral belief in basic human rights
upheld and defended with invincible determination
that forged a great nation, our nation.
It is that same spirit that remains the lifeblood of our country
and it comes from the heart and soul of a true American.

 

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My name is Petty Officer Jim Cava, United States Navy Retired.

I am a combat decorated veteran who served our country proudly as a Navy Corpsman

assigned to India (I) Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division - Vietnam War, 1968.

Most importantly, I am an American Patriot.

In accordance with my sincere and enduring love for Our Creator,

my earnest and steadfast love for Our Country

and my faithful and everlasting commitment to safeguard Our Children from that which is harmful and anti-American

I established: “OPERATION RED, WHITE AND BLUE”

The purpose of this vital and most meaningful non-profit cause

is to educate and re-educate Americans, especially Our Children,

to the true meaning and significance of Our American Heritage, Principles and Patriotism

Imparting: awareness-for that which is Right and respect-for that which is Honorable and Good / Others and Oneself.

I achieve my mission through the introduction of inspirational and motivational patriotic programs

together with a Patriotic Ceremony for adults consisting of narrative and song - rightfully and respectfully titled:

“A SALUTE TO THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

The following inspirational and motivational patriotic presentations are available upon request:

Kindergarten to Second Grade Program

(Thirty minutes)

Third to Fifth Grade Program

(Thirty-five minutes)

Sixth to Eighth Grade Program

(Forty minutes)

Ninth to Twelfth Grade Program

(Forty-five minutes)

Patriotic Ceremony

(Sixty minutes)

There is no-charge.

An honorarium is graciously and respectfully accepted.

 

The Patriotic Presentations made known on this website

Shall forever be dedicated to the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of:

Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans

Our true American Patriots Our true American Heroes

Made up of all races, colors and creeds

Who have saved us!  Who are saving us!

Who have served us!  Who are serving us!

Who have helped us!  Who are helping us!

Who have supported us!  Who are supporting us!

Who have protected us!   Who are protecting us!

Who have suffered for us!  Who are suffering for us!

Who have sacrificed their lives, their loves and possessions for us!

And Who are sacrificing their lives, their loves and possessions for us!

To uphold the undeniable principles for which we stand

And to defend the unalienable rights to which all people are endowed with their service and sacrifice

 

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STATUE OF LIBERTY

Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty Close-up

Statue of Liberty

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddle masses yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-toss to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

                                                                                ~ Emma Lazarus

 

The Statue of Liberty symbolizes global freedom

in the form of a woman wearing flowing robes and spiked crown.

She holds a torch aloft in her right hand and carries in her left hand a book inscribed "July 4, 1776".

The broken chains symbolizing the overthrow of tyranny lie at her feet.

 

The statue was designed by the French sculptor Frèdèric Bartoldi,

and the statue was given by France to the United States to commemorate the centennial of:

UNITED STATES INDEPENDENCE

 

The statue, formed of copper sheets riveted to an iron framework, is one of the largest in the world.

The statue weighs 250 tons, and it measures 306 ft 8 in from the bottom of the pedestal to the tip of the torch.

  

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The Betsy Ross Flag

 

Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross is best known for making the first American flag.

The story told is that she made the flag after a visit in June 1776

by George Washington, Robert Morris, and her husband's uncle, George Ross.

She demonstrated how to cut a 5-pointed star with a single clip of the scissors, if the fabric were folded correctly.

The Betsy Ross flag was designed during the American Revolution - June 1776

and features 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies.

There was an act that said that the flag of the thirteen United States be the thirteen stripes, alternated with red and white

and the union be thirteen stars in white in a bay of blue field that would represent a new constellation.

Washington said that they take the stars from the heavens

and the red from our mother country that would separate it by white stripes, and the white stripes will mean liberty.

The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution of 1777 on June 14, 1777

making the Betsy Ross flag the first official flag of the United States.

This date is now celebrated annually as Flag Day.

Nicknames for our flag are:

The Star-Spangled Banner, Old Glory and Stars and Stripes

THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES

New England Colonies

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Middle Colonies

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Delaware

New York

Southern Colonies

South Carolina

North Carolina

Virginia

Maryland

Georgia

 

 

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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

Star-Spangled Banner

Oh say can you see
By the dawns early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming
And the rockets red glare
The bombs busting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
Oh say does that Star Spangled Banner still wave
O’er the land of the free
And the home of the brave

 

Francis Scott Key

 During the night of September 13, 1814, the British fleet bombarded Fort McHenry in the harbor at Baltimore, Maryland.

Francis Scott Key, a 34-year old lawyer-poet, watched the attack from the deck of a British prisoner-exchange ship.

He had gone to seek the release of a friend but they were refused permission to go ashore until after the attack had been made.

As the battle ceased on the following morning, Key turned his telescope to the fort and saw that the American flag was still waving. The sight so inspired him that he pulled a letter from his pocket and began to write the poem which eventually was adopted as the national anthem of the United States -- "The Star Spangled Banner."

Key was returned to Baltimore and later that day took a room at a Baltimore tavern where he completed the poem.

Years later, Key told a hometown audience in Frederick, Maryland:

“I saw the flag of my country waving over a city -- the strength and pride of my native State

 -- a city devoted to plunder and desolation by its assailants. I witnessed the preparation for its assaults.

I saw the array of its enemies as they advanced to the attack. 

 I heard the sound of battle; the noise of the conflict fell upon my listening ear,

and told me that 'the brave and the free' had met the invaders.”

 

 

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OLD GLORY

 

The Story of Old Glory

 This famous name was coined by Captain William Driver, a shipmaster of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1831.

As he was leaving on one of his many voyages aboard the brig CHARLES DOGGETT -

and this one would climax with the rescue of the mutineers of the BOUNTY -

some friends presented him with a beautiful flag of twenty four stars.

As the banner opened to the ocean breeze for the first time, he exclaimed "Old Glory!"

He retired to Nashville in 1837, taking his treasured flag from his sea days with him.

By the time the Civil War erupted, most everyone in and around Nashville recognized Captain Driver's "Old Glory."

When Tennessee seceded from the Union, Rebels were determined to destroy his flag,

but repeated searches revealed no trace of the hated banner.

Then on February 25th, 1862, Union forces captured Nashville and raised the American flag over the capital.

It was a rather small ensign and immediately folks began asking Captain Driver if "Old Glory" still existed.

Happy to have soldiers with him this time, Captain Driver went home and began ripping at the seams of his bedcover.

As the stitches holding the quilt-top to the batting unraveled, the onlookers peered inside and saw the 24-starred original "Old Glory"!

Captain Driver gently gathered up the flag and returned with the soldiers to the capitol.

Though he was sixty years old, the Captain climbed up to the tower to replace the smaller banner with his beloved flag.

The Sixth Ohio Regiment cheered and saluted - and later adopted the nickname "Old Glory" as their own,

telling and re-telling the story of Captain Driver's devotion to the flag we honor yet today.

Captain Driver's grave is located in the old Nashville City Cemetery,

and is one of three places authorized by act of Congress where the Flag of the United States may be flown 24 hours a day.

 

 

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STARS AND STRIPES

  

AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARE

THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR

GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT

THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE

 

OH SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED  BANNER STILL WAVE
O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE
AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
 
 
THE FIFTY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ALABAMA, ALASKA, ARIZONA, ARKANSAS, CALIFORNIA
COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, FLORIDA, GEORGIA
HAWAII, IDAHO, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, IOWA
KANSAS, KENTUCKY, LOUISIANA, MAINE, MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI
MONTANA, NEBRASKA, NEVADA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW JERSEY
NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, OHIO
OKLAHOMA, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, UTAH, VERMONT
VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA, WISCONSIN, WYOMING
 
 

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Petty Officer Jim Cava

United States Navy Retired

“The Patriotic Voice of America”

Corpsman / 5th Marines, Vietnam 1968

E-mail: uspatriot1@optonline.net
Telephone: Land 973w427w3871 / Cell 973w454w9277
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www.OperationRedWhiteandBlue.com

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FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

GOD BLESS AMERICA

 

American Patriotism breeds:

Courage Friendship Loyalty Morality Responsibility Strength

 

 

 

 

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