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Flags of Freedom - The Founding

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“Flags of Freedom – The Founding”

What if flags could talk? What do you think they would say about their lives, the times they lived in, and the lives of the Discoverers, Explorers, Colonists, Warriors, Lawmakers, and Founding Fathers they represented when they were flying high above the land we now call America?

If you stop to think about it, flags would have enjoyed a pretty good vantage point from which to act as eyewitnesses to everything going on around them, wouldn’t they? Whether those flags were carried by flagbearers on the ground in the midst of the heat, smoke, and noise of great battles, as they led the way for the brave soldiers who were doing the fighting and their generals sitting on their high horses directing them in battle; or whether they waved stiff in the breeze high above the top masts of ships, or as they lazily waved in the breeze from atop tall flagpoles above towns, forts, and battlegrounds where they could see, and be seen, far into the distance so they might gain a wider perspective on the events going on below them; or as they hung immobile on the walls of buildings or from the balconies above the many meetings and speech makings where important men were making even more important decisions about the future of our country. Don’t you think those flags could have told us some pretty good tales about what they witnessed as America was being born and growing up to ultimately become the freest and most powerful nation on earth some 240 years later? I do!

Ah, but there’s a problem with this picture, isn’t it? Flags don’t have eyes to see with, or ears to hear with, or noses to smell with, or brains to think with, or mouths to speak with, do they? That would be impossible wouldn’t it? However, if you think so, you would be very wrong indeed my friend!

In the upcoming three volume American history series of books entitled; “Flags of Freedom,” over 100 of the greatest flags that once flew over our nation over the past 500 years are metaphorically given eyes, ears, noses, brains, and mouths, so that for the first time ever in the history of history books, flags can, and will, share with us the exciting true stories of their lives as they each witnessed their slice of America’s history in the making! It’s true! Flags will soon talk! Who knew?

Beginning over 2,700 years ago in ancient Greece and Rome, long before the word “America” even existed, flags and banners have been ever-present during the critical moments in our nation’s history as they acted as first-hand witnesses of the ideas, people, places, and events that would eventually become the building blocks of American history. From the Vikings’ discovery of America in the 11th-century to the fiftieth star in “Old Glory” in the modern American era of the 21st-century, each of the flags profiled in the “Flags of Freedom” series witnessed America’s history as it happened, where it happened, and as the people below them played out their parts in the three periods covered in the three books of the Flags of Freedom series;  America’s Founding as a New Nation in “Flags of Freedom — The Founding; during the rapid growth of an expanding nation and the sad period of disunity that almost ended our great experiment in freedom, in “Flags of Freedom — A Rising Nation”; and finally on to America’s hegemony and eventual rise as a global superpower to become the hope of the world for Freedom, Justice, and Peace in “Flags of Freedom — Birth of a Superpower.”

So, now do you believe that flags can tell the story of “How America Became America?” If not, why not read the first volume, “Flags of Freedom – The Founding” and see how educational, informing, and entertaining these eyewitnesses to America’s history can be!

 

Coming on Flag Day — June 14, 2024!

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