OLD GLORY NEVER RAISED HER HEAD

     During the evening of 29 August 2014, there was excitement in the local public school district's football stadium nicknamed the "Field of Dreams."  Now a permanent designation, even lettered on the new Million Dollar Artificial Turf.  The turf was paid for in part, perhaps in toto, by stripping funds from the various schools' arts and music programs.
   
     From its provincial beginning, the field was curiously nicknamed after the baseball movie of that same name.  Though illegal in most venues, the school district allows the belligerent display of large, permanent Christian crosses of the Trinity on the street sidewall. Supposedly, in deference to the city's name source of crosses over fictitious graves from fictitious Apache massacres.

     The across-town rivalry joined two public high schools. One school dubiously named "Onate High School" by the Church for the blessed Mexico-born conquistador who only passed through the area.  Fans and students of the newer other, Centennial High School, were wearing shirts and other equipment with the intentionally modified Trinitarian Zia symbol part of the school logo.

     Adding to the religiously charged event was the fluttering extra-large, evangelical-modified, Christianized state flag hanging under what appeared to be a smaller Old Glory. (See modified flag at 10/10/13 post.)

     Throughout the event, played out in the warm desert breeze, the fluttering modified state flag displayed its true face, while that symbol that represents us all, Old Glory, perhaps in shame, never raised her head.  But, the Valley's 'golden calf' flag of religious bigotry pole-danced the night away.