Tecumseh High School - Savage Yearbook (Tecumseh, OK)

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CONTINENTAL FLAG CARRIED IN 1775 1777 SHWOING PINE TRU. SYMBOL OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. IN PLACE OF THE CROSSES OF ST GEORGE ANO ST ANDREW LIBERTY TREE FLA6 - 177$ THE PINE TREE COMES FROM COINS OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS 1652 FIRST NAVY STARS AND STRIPES IN ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF STARS BY CONGRESS JUNE 14. 1777. IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR NAVY TO PUCE THE STARS IN FORM Of CROSSES OF ST GEORGE AND ST ANDREW FLAG Of THE THIRD MARYLAND - 1771 CARRIED AT THE BATTLE OF COWPENS JANUARY. 1778 AND USED AS COLORS OF AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR JOHN PAUL JONES STARRY FUG RESCUED FROM THE SEA 8Y JAMES BAYARO STAFFORD DURING BATTLE BETWEEN BON HOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS FUG OF THE WAR OF 1112 (1812-1114) SHOWING FIFTEEN STARS AND FIFTEEN BARS AS CHANGEO UPON ADMISSION OF VERMONT FREMONT. THE PATHFINDER'S FLAG - 40 » EMBLEM THAT BU2ED THE TRAIL FOR THE COVERED WAGON IN THE ROARING 40S THE URlY ENSIGN OF THE PUINS FUG Of THE MEXICAN WAR - 1S4S NOT ACTUALLY USED AS REGIMENTAL COLORS BY TROOPS BUT AS FUG OF CONQUEST AND OCCUPATION COMMODORE PERRY'S FUG - 1 54 THE FUG THAT OPENED JAPAN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION CONFEDERATE BATTLE ANO NAVY FUG USED FROM MAY 1. 1863 TO END OF WAR 1865 THE BATTLE FUG WAS SQUARE THE EMBLEM OF LIBERTY THAT 8ROUGHT FREEDOM TO CUBA of Freedom

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BENIAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ALSO CALLED SERAPIS FLAG GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FLAGS CARRICO BY THE MINUTE MEN BENIAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI 0i iS, 76: FIRST STARS ANO STRIPES UNITED EMBLEM OF INDEPENDENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINATED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 14. 1777 •OLD GLORY NAME GIVEN BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DRIVER. COMMANDING THE BRIG CHARLES DAGGETT IN 1831 FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 1841 1865 THE STARS ANO STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIED BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING LATER YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR American Banners

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THE SPIRIT OF A NATION I was born American; I live an American; I shall die an American.” daniel webster “Don’t give up the ship . ’ ’ ('APT. JAMES LA WHENCE war LINCOLN to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, emma lazarus 'The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” thomasjefferson “A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” a rover Cleveland Be sure you are right, then go ahead. davidcrockett A knowledge of the past prepares us for the crisis of the present and the challenge of the future.” johnf. Kennedy “ . . That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” Lincoln Historic continuity with the past is not a duty; it is only a necessity. justice oliver wendell holmes America is a tune. It must be sung together. f GERALD STANLEY LEE “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country HORACE GREELEY ‘7 come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. ” Dorothea dix