Flags of Our Fathers On the Northern border of the Arlington National Cemetery stands a huge bronze monument representing probably the world's most famous war photograph: the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi during the invasion of Iwo Jima. The three-hundred page book, Flags of Our Fathers, ...
Unfortunately, historians have never been able to verify this charming version of events, although it is known that Ross made flags for the navy of Pennsylvania. The story of Washington's visit to the flag maker became popular about the time of the country's first centennial, after William Ca...
The Republican base, who pride themselves on unshakeable patriotism and on their veneration of the Founding Fathers, do not hesitate to deify Trump on signs, banners, and ubiquitous flags, depicting him sometimes as the musclebound, gun-toting action hero that he has never approximated in real ...
Australia Day Support Surges as Radical Activists Call for Flags to Be Burnt and ‘Monuments to Colonisation’ DestroyedSky News “Australians are seeing before their eyes the decline of social cohesion on our streets and in our communities." ...
This is the year that Venice went officially Green: posters, flags, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior steaming to and fro, bunting, algae, my hair. “O my brothers” peace and harmony rules. Except for…VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1988The Venice Film Festival, which can be as peaceful as its ...
Leah states that she was ‘shocked’ at the selling of Confederate flags at USS Yorktown and the article articulates that the Confederate flag is a ‘symbol of lynch mobs and Jim Crow’. Would she not consider that if this is the case, it is because as a country you have this percepti...
Images of American flags lined the hallway. “We have them everywhere, because I’m grateful to this country,” he said. “I’ve lived in a Third World country. A lot of liberals haven’t.” Tejada came to the U.S. from Honduras legally at age 6 to live with his mother, who ...
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart —Carlos Santana 88 Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That ...
Just before dawn on June 9, 1863, Union soldiers materialized from a thick fog near the banks of Virginia's Rappahannock River to ambush sleeping Confederates. The ensuing struggle, which lasted throughout the day, was to be known as the Battle of Brandy Station the largest cavalry battle ev...
Where flags fly high and monuments stand With more stories than words can tell. I saw your name on a glossy black wall And as my throat became tight, My chest swelled slightly with pride for a man Who thought freedom was well worth the fight. ...