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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
1951
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WE MAY SAY, perhaps, that the first flag was the multi-
hued rainbow which Jehovah unfurled across the skies after
the Deluge to signal his covenant with man, promising that
mever again would He send the waters to cover the face of
the earth and destroy all flesh.
Whether or not flags are of this divine origin, they
serve and have served as a visible bulwark of idealism
through the ages, and in that service there is surely a touch
of divinity. Certainly our American flag—the child of In
dependence Day—has always floated from the pinnacle of
high resolve and lofty idealism.
The story of the Stars
and Stripes is the story of
the nation itself; the evolu
tion of the flag is symbolic
of the evolution of our free
institutions. Its development
epitomizes the amazing ex
pansion of our boundaries
and the development of our
natural resources. It says, in
a single, brilliant flash of
color, all there is to say about
the United States.
The Union Flag For a real beginning, we
can go as far back as 1620, when the Pilgrims strode ashore
at Plymouth to become America’s first colonists. They had
carried the union flag of England on the mainmast of their
ship, and they flew it over their settlement.
The union flag was not the first Ajnerican flag, but it
was the first flag in America. And, in a sense, it contained
within its colors the dawn of American independence.
The
Continental
Nag
This is one of the several famous "pine tree” flags of
American history. It was said to have been carried at the
battle of Bunker Hill. Design of the flag probably was
evolved from the English ensign, which was in use prior
to 1705, by omitting the St. George’s cross and substituting
the pine tree.
The
Bunker Hill
Flag
Our First
Navy Jack
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Here is another variation of the "pine tree*’ theme;
and this flag, too, was carried by Colonial soldiers at Bunker
Hill. Also an adaptation of an English emblem, it was
made simply by inserting a pine tree in the upper left quarter
of the old blue ensign’s canton which indicated the rank of
vice-admiral in the English navy.
As the first jack of the infant American navy, this
standard was hoisted on December 3, 1775. That was the
same day that John Paul Jones first hoisted the navy ensign
of the 13 colonies, when Commodore Esek Hopkins as
sumed command of the navy built by congress. This flag
represents one occurrence of the rattlesnake device, which
was seen again and again in our early American flags.
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The work that we do is the making of the
flag.
I am not the flag; not at all. I am but its
shadow.
I am what you make me; nothing more.
I swing before ybur eyes as a bright gleam of
color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured sugges
tion of that big thing which makes this nation.
My stars and my stripes are your dream and
your labors. They are bright with cheer, bril
liant with courage, firm with faith, because you
have made them so out of your hearts; for you
are the makers of the flag, and it is well that
you glory in the making.
—FRANKLIN K. LANE
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Admiral
Perry's
Flag
At the battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, Oliver
Hazard Perry, who was in command of a fleet which he
had been forced to construct in feverish haste from virgin
timber, unfurled from his masthead this challenge to sturdy
Americanism—the dying words of brave Captain Lawrence.
As a result. Perry was able to send his message: "We have
met the enemy and they are ours.’*
Flag of
Washington's
Navy
AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN
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This was the flag flown by Washington’s six cruisers
in 1775. The Lady Washington, a brig fitted out in 1775,
was captured by H.M.S. Fowey on December 7 of that year,
and her colors were placed in the Admiralty office in London.
The
Bedford
Flag
Probably the most interesting flag of all the colonial
period is this standard of the Bedford Minute Men, carried
by them in the Battle of Concord. It is small, only about
two and a-half feet square, but it carries woven among its
faded threads the love and veneration of a grateful America.
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Fort
Moultrie
Flag
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LIBERTY
The
Bennington
Flag
Oa a (packer's platform
With stat* flag or other pennant o« staff In church, with another flag
Grouped with other flags or pennants
From window or balcony
In procession, with one other flag Against wolf with another flog.
staffs crossed
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ter Teeth
This flag flew from the southeast bastion of Fort Moul
trie in Charleston harbor during the famous Revolutionary
battle of June 28, 1776. Early in the attack the emblem
fell outside the parapet. Sergeant William Jasper, crying,
"Don’t let us fight without a flag,’’ leaped over the wall
in a rain of bullets and replaced it in position.
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