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The American Flag
The American flag has remained a fundamental representation of liberty and freedom every throughout it is withstanding 239 year tenure. During this time, the American banner has assumed a total of 27 diverse guises since its official particular date of creation June 13, 1777. To several people, the flag represents a personal perception of satisfaction, accomplishment or dignity. A nation’s flag is anything to be honored and revered ” something citizens can look towards during the hour of uncertainty. The flag states is no exemption. Our flag provides us with an innate gratitude for self-reliance and the ability to defend each of the truths all of us claim to become self-evident.
I think the American flag can be described as direct representation of the self-evident truths of Life, Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness. This belief is rooted inside my aspire to serve my own country down the road, as well as my own four-year engagement within the NJROTC program. The program has exhibited to me what it takes to be a citizen of this nation and how I could better understand and esteem the banner, noting all of that it presents. However , the flag is only a touchable symbol. The intangible is what distinguishes its meaning from its appearance. Countless individuals paid the ultimate selling price while providing under the course of our place’s colors. Considering that the very embodiment of the banner is centered upon sacrifice, we can easily notice that many other elements play in to this, just like, courage, pleasure, valor, differentiation and prize. Without these, specific sacrifice more than likely exist. The emotional connection and the likely physical repercussions of portion under the American flag are both irreplaceable and unforgettable. They serve as a consistent reminder why we choose to defend our freedoms as a nation, why we all defend those who find themselves unable to do this themselves and why you decide to use to stand your ground in our morals as a country.
Although the emotional appeal of our nation’s banner is pertinent to how we perceive it as a persons, the history of the flag keeps a much deeper, more relevant significance to the way of life. Actually, the American flag was similar to nothing near the flag we so cherish today. Instead of the red, light and blue, the initial ‘American’ banner bore the hearty shades of green, white and black. The Pine Shrub Flag, when it was called, was our country’s first flag (unofficially). Nevertheless , not to say it didn’t provide an official purpose! This banner was exhibited during the Battle of Batterie Hill, bearing the phrase “An Appeal to Heaven”, which naturally aimed to place holy prefer upon the colonists and their efforts of proclaiming liberty from The united kingdom. This representational message of freedom nonetheless reigns true to this day. It may not relate to stating freedom via another region, however , it can do convey a have to maintain the daily freedoms we like as People in the usa. The freedom to talk about what we think, the freedom to write our thoughts and activities through the press, the freedom to rehearse any religious beliefs of our choice, if virtually any at all, as well as the freedom to live an unhindered human lifestyle based on our very own potential. Whether it be the 1st Pine Shrub Flag or maybe the current American flag, many of these freedoms necessary individual sacrifice. This is anything we are unable to take for granted.
