God Bless the USA. God Bless our Troops and God Bless Rick Monday. Great Play Mr. Monday. To me it was the GREATEST moment in American League Baseball. Well done Sir!

I was at a company function today and the trainer of the function played the incredible video of Mr. Monday saving the American Flag.

Before he introduced the video he asked if anyone liked baseball. We all said yes and he replied with this. "I am about to show you the greatest play in Baseball History" Of course the first thought that ran through my mind was. "That is impossible. There are so many great plays that there is no one GREATEST Play.. I changed my mind quickly when I actually saw that play...

WOW. Simply amazing.

Thank You Sir For That Great Heroic Play and God Bless You.
Jerry Wipf
Billings, Montana

What a very proud moment in American history and for baseball. My Father Sgt Maj H.C. Bruton USMC Retired fought in two wars for our flag and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He would have been very proud and I appreciate Mr. Mondays deed. Thank you Rick....for my Dad his four brothers, my son and myself. I would love to have a copy of that stirring photograph
Doug Bruton
Denison, Texas

Wife of MLBPA Jon Warden 1968 World Champion Detroit Tigers-- this was awesome!

Thank you for sharing this! We need more patrotism these days.

I was about 10 when this happened. Just saw it today for the first time (30 years later). Wow....am I proud to be an American, Mr. Monday.

I was 19 when it happened. Doesn't it mean so much more today? Should be a law against it. I was raised outside of Chicago and am, to this day, still a Cubbies fan. To hell with Barry Bonds. Rick Monday's my hero.

It was a pretty great play and I had forgotten it until now. I was in LA at the time and, even though I didn't go to the game, I remember the press going nuts about it. They played it repeatedly on TV for days afterwards. It was very inspiring and I remember the discussions we had in my Reserve Unit for several meetings thereafter.
Jerry Feldner, MAJ, USA (Retd) (Viet Nam, 67-68)

Rick Monday, God Bless You. Thank you, for saving our flag in 1976 but also thanks to everyone who have brought it to our attention in 2006. I have four grandsons that are very active in Baseball and I want them to feel the patrotism that you showed by saving the flag. I miss hearing the prayers before the games, all of the American prodicall we used to have.

Again, God Bless you. Ellen Hill June 4, 2006

Thank you, Mr. Monday and may God Bless you always.

Mr. Monday,

I grew up a baseball fan and when I turned 18 I joined the Air Force and spent 20 year defending the flag you defended that day. Thank you for serving our country and protecting our symbol of freedom. God Bless!

I was born a Dodger fan and remember watching the game the day this happened. Even being only 14 years old at the time, it brought tears to my eyes. After serving in the Air Force for five years and seeing the replay of this incident once again, you were and always will be an American hero.

Mr Monay. Thank you for your selfless contribution to America and Baseball. With all of the fighting, drug use, and off sport violence by the players these days, young people sure could use more people like you in sports. Young people seem to take sports figures on as roll models. You would be the perfect roll model and hero. Thank you

Mr. Monday,

I met you yesterday for the first time at Arlington National Cemetery. As you stepped up behind me with your wife, I wondered, “who was this well dressed gentleman and his wife. What were they doing joining us?” I wish I had known before you came down the line to shake our hands. Because then I could have properly welcomed you as a member of the Patriot Guard Riders. Thank you for your honorable actions back in 1976. Thank you for your service to this great nation. But more than that, thank you for joining us in honoring Sgt. Christopher M. Erberich.

I have shared this and the video with many friends and family. Thank you for sharing it with us and the feedback has been wonderful with many great comment and thanks to Rick Monday. Many have asked what were the names and what became of the two maggots who tried to set fire to the flag. It would be nice to share the wonderful comments with them and to seem it they had the courage to turn their lives around.

Warm thanks for your true patriotic act some 30 years ago. Especially, now with the awful news about the two soldiers who were tortured and killed in Iraq fighting for that same treasured flag. I'm certain these brave men would agree and their tormented families know this whole country is grateful for their supreme sacrifice. Another reminder of how our love of country goes so deep.

As the widow of a Naval Officer who served in three wars (WW2, Korea, Vietnam), I applaud you Mr. Monday for your actions in 1976. I am sure that my husband was very proud of you on that day. Thank you for being a good citizen as well as a great baseball player.

Mr. Monday
I had the honor and privilege to escort your wife and the flags across the Great State of Tennessee. Thank you for the phone conversation. Your act in 1976 has 30 years later started a new ground swell of patriotism. Thank you for giving the Patriot Guard Riders the Honorable Mission of transporting The Flags your precious wife Barbralee and James.
God Bless America and the Military defending us.
Mike Barbree
Tennessee PGR

I would like to say I had the honor in escorting this flag and a flag from the 101st airborne in Iraq that was sent to the Monday's as a tribute to Mr. Monday's Patriotism. As member of the Patriot Guard Riders I wish to express my sincere admiration to Barbarlee Monday for her United States tour with the these flags. For those that do not know these are being escorted "pony express" style by the Patriot Guard Riders across the United States. It is done with the upmost respect and honor. Here's to our Service Men and Women! As a friend of mine uses as his signature line. " IF YOU CAN"T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM".

Thank you for what you did. You are truely a great American!

Please tell me I can get a poster of that great shot of you saving our great flag. I would love to put that up in my home.

Gene and I thank Barbaralee Monday, James her brother and the Patriot Guard Riders for the visit on Sunday June 25th 2006 in Chelsea, Oklahoma honoring the memory of SSG John G Doles our son who died in Afghanistan on September 29, 2005. It was a very nice visit and will always remember the flag we got to hold and the meaning it has.
Thank You

I am a soldier recovering at Walter Reed Medical Center I have seen a copy of a poster commemerating the 30th anniversery of Rick Monday saving the flag and would like to have a copy of it. Could someone e-mail at
mark.kreisher@us. army.mil
if they know how I can get a copy. Many Thanks

As a former fighter pilot for the US Air Force, I want to thank Rick Monday for his action that day. I just showed the video to my 13 year old son and he spontaneously applauded Mr. Monday's action. Great Americans are not born, but made. Made by their choice of actions and the examples those actions set for the rest of us.

Thanks Rick.

Someone please tell me the names of the father and son who tried to burn the flag that day. Thanks.

Dear Rick,

I remember the moment. Most of all, our freedoms have been challenged time and time again throughout history. From the advent of Constitution to this very day, we have had to deal with those that want to destroy the freedoms that so many, many brave Americans have given their lives for over the years. I am an African-American male, 56 years old, and want you to know that you, by that act, demonstrated bravery equal to all those that have died protecting our freedoms.

You validated the level of respect we MUST have for the freedoms so many of us take for granted.

God Bless You, Mr. Monday,

Chris

Is there any place I can purchase that photograph?

Mr. Monday-
I just saw the video tribute to your great "save" thirty years ago. I'm afraid I have never been much of a baseball fan, but I am definitely a fan of anyone like yourself, that sees what needs to be done, and just DOES it! Thank you for expressing the love of our Flag, that so many of us feel, and forget to show!

What a great video. Is there any place I can get a print of that photo?

Will Berkley
Edmonds, WA
willsb1234@hotmail.com

Dear Mr. Monday,

As a 30 year veteran in sports photography I want to thank you for what you did 30 years ago. I only wish I had been there to shoot this great play you made.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Frank Alexander

Does anyone know where to get a painting or print of Rick Monday saving the flag??? Linda Z

Where can you get a print of that photo of Rick Monday saving the Flag ??

Where can you get a print of the famous photo of Rick Monday saving the flag.
Would like to have a print to display on my wall.

Yes, I would also LOVE to know where I can get a portrait of this WONDERFUL event!!!

I would like to purchase a print of the flag saving event that Mr. Monday did.
How can I purchase one.

I'm 62 yrs old and had chills when my son sent me the clip; I missed that whole episode when it actually happened. Rick is a HERO in my book. What instinct he had to react so quickly.

I think today there are still offsprings of us
which you would see that same action. Unfortunately, the news reports do not report the heroic things our children and grandchildren do, BUT, there are still young children out there with a sense of country, flag, and love.

& Rick Monday showed it all with his DEED!!!

Judi

Mr. Monday

I remember your great play and as a veteran who came home to the boos and jeers of idiots like the two you helped to embarass, I am greatfull to you for doing the right thing.

I hope your heroics continue to inspire Americans to be willing to take a stand for our Country... no matter who the enemy is who is trying to hurt It.

Thanks again and on this Memorial Day, may God Bless you and yours.

Bruce R. USAF 1965 - 1968

Mr. Monday.

I just saw the video clip for the first time of you grabbibg the flag out of those bas---ds hands. Thank you!! Is there a way to obtain a copy of the portrait that was made for you? Thanks again for your fine act of patriotism.

As a Vietnam vet and an old Marine it makes me proud to see this.
The only thing I would like to know is where I can get this picture, I would display it proudly.

GOD Bless you Rick. I also would like to know how to get a copy of this famous photo, which honestly should be on the everyday stamps we use!!!
Thank you,
Annie

I never heard about this moment before. Truly a simple yet inspiring thing. I don't have many things on my wall but that [painting?] that Rick is holding up would be something I would just love to find. Has anyone managed to locate it?

I have been looking for a painting of our flag to hang in my home for eight years and have never been able to decide upon one until I saw this painting of Rourke's photograph. I was a teenager when this event happened and was totally appalled at how those 2 men wanted to use their moment in the spotlight. We cheered Mr.Monday. Just think: An All-American hero who plays our All-American sport. THANK YOU MR.MONDAY! Where can this painting be found? I MUST HAVE IT!

I am looking for a CD of Rick Mondays play for my American post veterans to see and possibly get one for them.

Viewed for the first time on 7-13-07

Dear Mr. Monday, with a lump in my throat and tears in my eye I want to thank you for your quick action, and for being an example of a true American for the generations to come. Like you, my blood runs, red, white and blue. Thank you, and I hope your life has been richly blessed.
Julia....North Carolina

I knew about Rick Monday and what he did, but today my brother sent me the video clip: there are no words to describe how I felt watching this.

Rick is a hero: a man's man.

I would display the photo with pride: it is America at it's finest.

This belongs in Cooperstown and on the Wall.

Live well Mr Monday

Rick,

I can't say how proud I am to see this. It truley brings a tear to my eyes.

You are a true American. Thank you for saving our flag that day.

I wish we all could be as stand us as you were back then. We need to be proud of our country or GET OUT!

Mr Monday, A friend sent me the video of you saving the flag in 1976. Shamefully I was "one of those people" back then. The sixties were the worst times, in my feeling, that the USA ever had. But in 1982 I came back to my "roots". Before I could share the video I lost it. I have searched and cannot find it again. It included the original film clip and some excerpts with you speaking. I would love to have it again. Thank you for this freat moment and God bless the USA, land that I love.

I just saw for the first time the video of Rick Monday and will send it on to as many of the military guys that we work with.

How do I buy a print that Rick is holding?

ED

I wish I could find a framed picture of that or a print that I can have framed. I would proudly hang that in my office or at my home!

If anyone knows of where I can get that, please call me at 203-929-3535.

Thanks
Mike

Rick,

I had not seen the video of this nor heard of it until today. I was moved to tears. My Dad a WWII vet flew a flag on a flag pole at our house my entire life. As young kids we were embarrassed to always have our house referred to as the flag pole house. As we grew up we became proud ourselves to refer to our house that way when giving directions. When my Dad died at age 88 last year he was sent to heaven in a flag draped coffin. Listening to Rick speak about that moment, his respect and reverence for the flag and our country just reminded me so much of my Dad. I found this site trying to find a copy of that picture. I have a wall that it would go nicely on right next to a very special folded flag. Both would carry special meanings.

Mr. English,

First, thank you for your service to our country. Second, your request is the most common question I receive and, unfortunately, I must tell you that I have no knowledge regarding the availability of the photo, the painting nor the poster. Given the number of inquiries, I don't believe they are available anywhere. I wouldn't mind having a copy of the painting myself.

If anyone has been successful getting a copy of the print, I desperately would like a copy. Please post on this site.

I too would love a print of this moment. Where are they available?

Please, please where can I buy a copy of that photo!!!!!

Toni Sommers
916 966-0142

I am humbled Mr. Monday. . .

Mr Monday,
You are a true American hero! You rank right up there with the Duke himself!! LOL. I was 2 years old when you rescued our Flag. . . so naturally I don't remember it! But I can tell you whenever I see the video I get goosebumps and it makes me proud to be an American!!
Thank you and God Bless you and yours!!
Lynnetta

I Just saw the video. It was sent to me by a friend. I was not yet born when Mr. Monday rescued the flag from those two pieces of human excrement, but even today the incident represents what it means to be and American and the American Values that we hold so dearly. As a war time veteran I can only say that I am in awe of you Mr. Monday. I only hope that given similar circumstances, that I would be able to act as you did. You are a HERO, whether you would like to be or not. You did what it took to save that flag, as so many others have done before you. God Bless you Rick Monday

I showed this video to 100 adult Boy Scout volunteers last night at our annual recognition banquet. It was shown right before our opening flag ceremony - lots of lumps in the throat and then the chaplain stood up to give the invocation and started to choke up from the emotion of it all.

I was arrested in 2002 for doing the same thing and it cost me over $7,000 in legal fees and nearly a year of stress to get the charges dropped. The local media portrayed the "anti-war" woman who had the flag on the sidewalk as a victim and hero.

Rick, thanks for thinking with your heart and doing the right thing. You did the right thing and are still making us proud.

Anybody know where I might be able to find the painting/print for sale that Rick Monday is pictured holding in the story above?

I'm a Korean War vet and would like to purchase a copy of this picture to hang next to my 911 picture. Any info would be appriciated. Thanks, Bill

While I wasn't in attendance that day, how WELL I remember this event! Born and raised in Los Angeles and as a life long LA Dodger fan, Rick Monday, to me, was always special, but also was and IS representative of the the special group of men who played for the Dodger's during those years. He is a great man and fine player, and I admire him so much for acting swiftly to save our flag from being burned! What a moment! I still cry every time I view this! Last time I was at a Dodger game, (May '09) they showed a mini history of Rick on Dodger vision within the stadium culminating with a shot of him in the KABC announcer's booth and we all sat and cried, cheered, felt so much! We LOVE Rick Monday! Thank you for posting this event, as it was and will always be one of baseball's and America's finest moments!

Dear Rick Monday,
God bless for saving our flag, im your 1st or 2nd cousin-charlies daughter- and i think its inspiring how you did that.
-emalie m.

Did anyone film the Naval Officer who got to unfurl the US Flag and the Dodgers/Phillies game, October 15, 2009

"but, of course didn't win because it wasn't at all anti-American…maybe if they had succeeded in burning the flag."

What?!?! you're a f****** moron.