Word: flags
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...superior rank. Neither the private who salutes nor the major general who returns the salute has lowered himself a hair breadth, socially or any other way, any more than has a civilian who has doffed his hat to a woman, a white haired old man, or the flag of his country. ---Chicago Tribune...
...President's Flag Day address formed another in that series of popular confidential addresses which he has made to the people. In it without circumlocution he reiterated our cause against Germany as he has seen...
...wiser reflection one realizes that of such men no nation, even the very least, stands in need. Our strength would not be strengthened by their weakness, nor would the honor of our flag and the safety of our people be upheld by those who value above all honor and natural safety their own poor integrity...
...bygone years how well we have loved to bedeck them, the festive sailors, the insolent Panamas, with bright ribbons colored--like the Imperial flag--of red, white and black. They have been the resting place on which we could drape our honors. They have been wound with the ribboned laurels of our fame. They have served as heralds to the whole world of our success...
...should not, in being proud of our flag and our national anthem, fall to the level of the rabble, which hoots, throws stones, and riots when some slight form is omitted, not from an exalted and generous conception of the meaning of their nation and a desire to preserve its honor, but simply because, being a rabble, it loves to hoot, throw stones, and riot...