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'Battle Cry of Freedom' First verse: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom. Second verse: We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, shouting the battle cry of freedom. Chorus: The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; Third verse: While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom. Source: Civil War poetry.org (George F. Root's song also was adapted for the South) What turned out to be one of the most popular Civil War songs "Battle Cry of Freedom" ("Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys"), wasn't written until 1862 by George F. Root - it could have been in the spring of 1861.
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MARTINSBURG - Brian Tolstyka stood at the edge of a giant American flag spread across several tables in the Veterans Affairs hospital gym. Wearing a leather vest with a flag patch and a hat with a flag pin, Tolstyka was about to stitch his place in history. Gently clasping a threaded needle between thumb and forefinger, Tolstyka, 43, slipped it into the fabric of a red stripe. The 300 people in the Eastern Panhandle gym clapped. The Persian Gulf War veteran felt a lump in his throat.
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The Maritime Administration is updating its inventory of U.S.- flag launch barges. Additions, changes and comments to the list are requested. Launch barge information may be found at http:// www.marad.dot.gov/ships_shipping_landing_page/domestic_shipping/ launch_barge_program/Launch_Barge_Program.htm.
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WASHINGTON - Ben Zaricor was a college student in St. Louis in 1969 when he saw this guy in a band get beaten up. Students getting pummeled wasn't entirely unusual on campuses in that tumultuous era of Vietnam and Kent State and Watts and civil rights marches, but what Zaricor couldn't get over was the reason the guy got trounced - he was wearing a Stars and Stripes vest. Like he was Captain America in "Easy Rider," with the flag on the gas tank and Peter Fonda's helmet.
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Photos by Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian Prairie High School Air Force Junior ROTC cadet Sophia MacPherson, 15, helps hold up a large American flag Tuesday during the annual Flag Day celebration at the Vancouver Barracks Parade Ground.
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COLUMBUS -- As I watched Nate Ebner wrap his black-gloved right hand around the wooden staff of an American flag and lift it high above the heads of all his amped-up Ohio State teammates who were waiting to follow him onto the field at Ohio Stadium Saturday as some 105,000 fans stood and cheered, I thought back 10 years ago to the event that triggered this moment. I remembered standing in the smoldering ruins of Ground Zero -- where just three days before terrorists had used hijacked jetliners to take down the twin towers of the World Trade Center and kill more than 2,700 innocent people -- and watching another hard-nosed defender lift the American flag.
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With a flag football festival scheduled for Saturday in Baltimore, organizers of amateur and semi-professional sporting events touted their entertainment value and economic impact, including the benefit to businesses looking to target spectators and participants. The Baltimore Flag Football Festival, which will be held on the infield of Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, looks to attract upward of 1,500 people if the weather is fair, according to event organizer Scott Westcoat.
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Our American flag is the best-known symbol of our country. The evolution of the flag we know so well today was a long and fascinating process. As a schoolchild, I was taught that the first American flag was designed by a simple seamstress named Betsy Ross. Turns out that was not quite right, as is much of the lore of our nation. An early example of our American flag shows one of the ways our ancestors arranged the stars. At the time, there were no mandates on how the stars must be positioned, so hundreds of designs are known.
