Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23870 – 1309
Dear Loyal Fans, Friends, Fiends, and Foes,
Here’s the Haps:
This post is based on a post from several years ago now (five years ago seems like forever ago to me for some reason). At the time, we had a follower who asked what he thought was a simple question. “Who is the allegory of America? Do you have one? Is it Lady Liberty?” He was from India and said that the Indian allegory is “Mother India.” The question intrigued me. Who or what is the American Allegory? Uncle Sam? Nope. Lady Liberty? Nope. George M. Cohan? Nope. Some of the things that are in Wikipedia? Nope. (I would not accept Wikipedia as a primary source, however, any more than I would CNN anyway. It can give you some places and links and things to start working on a subject, though, so it [Wikipedia] is not completely worthless.)
No, the real American Allegory is her flag. The flag of the United States of America is rich in history and symbolism and is a true allegory of the Republic for which it stands. Officially adopted on June 14, 1777, 13 stripes, alternating red and white, and 13 white stars on a field of blue united in a new constellation. The stripes were to represent the original 13 colonies and the individual white stars on a blue field represent the individual states, united. Red is the color of the blood that has been shed for the country and also stands for hardiness and valor. The white stands for purity and innocence. The blue field stands for vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
There’s a lot of history in the flag of the United States of America.
We fly our flag a lot. Not only on special holidays and such, but a lot of times just because. Because we can and because of what it stands for. We even fly ours when we are camping. In this video from the early days of the lockdown, Laurence, the guy over at the YouTube channel “Lost In The Pond,” says at 7:18 that he has never seen so many flags flying.
Americans love their flag and to most of us, the flag is not just a piece of cloth flying on a stick but symbolizes a lot of things. It stands for a lot of different things but most of all and more than anything else, it stands for freedom. The flag of the United States of America is the allegory of the nation.
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I am still shaking my head at the nutritional value of a bag of ice in the last post.
Is that the rattling sound I was hearing?