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¶ THE ¶ UNITED STATES ¶ OF ¶ AMERICA ¶
ONE NATION UNDER GOD
¶ 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, Perseverance, Vigilance, 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, 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 Whereby: 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 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 And the basic instrument of our government The embodiment of democratic principles 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 Loving Parents Our Devoted Principals and Teachers Our Mentally and Physically Challenged Our Young Americans and Senior Citizens Our Honest Workers and Selfless Volunteers Our Truehearted Americans
You are the symbol of: Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans who founded our country and the fundamental and undeniable principles for which she stands Our true American Patriots ¶ Our true American Heroes Who gave unselfishly of themselves in service to our country and who sacrificed all in the birth of our country To preserve our great Republic To uphold the undeniable principles for which she stands And to defend the unalienable rights to which all people are endowed
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 You are the symbol of: Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans Who have served and who are serving our great 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: Our United States Navy Our United States Marine Corps Our United States Army Our United States Air Force Our United States Coast Guard Our United States Merchant Marines Our Army National Guard Our Air National Guard
You are the symbol of: The greatest Public Safety in the world Our Police Department of the United States Our Fire Department of the United States Our 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 given and who are giving unselfishly of themselves To preserve our great Republic To uphold the undeniable principles for which she stands And to defend 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 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 shall never-be-forgotten.
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 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: The 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, Airman/woman and Marine And there are none so brave A supreme patriot who made the supreme sacrifice 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 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 and ultimate sacrifice
And you are the symbol of: Our wholehearted and everlasting gratitude
You are: ¶ ¶ OUR FLAG ¶
¶ OLD GLORY ¶
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¶ The Betsy Ross Flag ¶
The Story of the Betsy Ross Flag 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 ¶
The British attack on Fort McHenry began early on September 13, 1814 in pouring rain. All through the day and into the night, rockets and shells battered the fort that guarded Baltimore Harbor. The British ships carried mortars capable of lobbing bombshells over a target from two miles away. The high-trajectory shells exploded above the heads of Americans in the fort, raining deadly shrapnel down on them. Fires raged wherever the shells landed. For much of the battle, the British bombshells were falling at a rate of one a minute. As many as 1,800 bombs were fired at the fort; the U.S. commander later estimated that 400 fell within its walls.
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
The Story of The Star Spangled Banner
The British entered
Chesapeake Bay on August 19,
1814 and in just 5 days
invaded and captured the
young Republic's Capital,
burning down both the
Capitol and White House with
flames visible 40 miles away
in Baltimore next to be
attacked.
The "war of 1812" was
quickly coming to a sad end.
Earlier in 1813 Maj. George
Armistead (US) the
commander of Fort McHenry
(Baltimore Port) asked for a
flag so big "the
British would have no
trouble seeing it from a
distance." Mr. Key along with Col. John Skinner, an agent for prisoner exchange, sailed under a flag of truce 3 September. Producing a pouch of letters from wounded British prisoners praising their care which Dr. Beanes provided,
they were able to
secure his release.
firing bombshells weighing
as much as 220 pounds.* 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 is 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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¶ STATUE OF LIBERTY ¶
"Give me your tired,
your poor, ~ 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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1966-1971, RVN
Petty Officer Jim Cava United States Navy Retired “The Patriotic Voice of America” Corpsman / 5th Marines, Vietnam 1968
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