The featured reviewer has to be part of the "blame America first" crowd. To call "Ragged Old Flag" over-the-top patriotism is treason, in my opinion. This song IS a tribute to the men and women who carried this nation's flag into battle BUT also reflects on times when we weren't feeling very patriotic--and as Cash points out, "(The flag) waved on, though". So this isn't a "rah-rah! Go America! Love it, or leave it!" hyper-patriotic song as the featured reviewer would seem to think. The orchestral arrangement is befitting a song that covers a topic of this magnitude. It is an honest, but reverant telling of this nation's highs and lows gathered under one flag..."and I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag".

I'm sure this guy is still trying to recover from the "over the top patriotism " of Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner", too. This is a classic Cash album. And Ragged Old Flag is a classic Cash song.