I’m going to steal some of your stuff as soon as I get a chance, the Obama/Powell and scholarship posts.
]]>If anyone is looking for early socialist literature, I could recommend books by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. They might also consider that the Revolution changed the flag from one with two crosses to none. [The red saltire was added after we left.]
It’s amazing with all of the brouhaha about the flag only the military is required to follow the specifications.
]]>The last time I saw correctly proportioned flags was on 7/21/2001, which is Founders’ Day in Olympia, WA. (It also happened to be Stella’s big birthday ending in zero; I won’t say which.) Their parade (Stella’s birthday parade, of course) had at least a dozen military units and/or military bands marching in it, all with the proper “long” flags. It looked grand. The flag recast as golden rectangle (which regrettably describes all of them that I own) loses something. Francis Bacon wrote, “There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion,” and w.r.t. the American flag, of which for obvious reasons he knew nothing, he was surely right.
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