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To: Mollypitcher1
Here is another good flag:


61 posted on 07/01/2015 7:30:45 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: mbarker12474

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Virginia’s official state flag was adopted in 1861. The state’s seal was placed on the flag at the start of America’s Civil War in 1861.

The flag has a deep blue background with a white circle in the center. The seal in the center features the words “VIRGINIA,” and “SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS” (Latin for “thus always to tyrants”).

Depicting the state’s motto on the flag is the goddess Virtue (who is holding a sword and a spear). She has defeated a tyrant, who is lying on the ground, and is holding a chain and a scourge (a whip). To the right is the tyrant’s fallen crown.

Virtue symbolizes Virginia and the tyrant symbolizes Britain. Red Virginia creepers and green leaves surround the scene.

Obviously, mbarker, you choose to affix your own meaning to the flag of Virginia, without bothering to EDUCATE yourself as to its TRUE meaning. I see no connection between the goddess VIRTUE subjugating the tyrannical Britain(symbolized by chain, whip, and CROWN, and your attempted and ill conceived affiliation with slavery in the south.
America broke the chains of slavery of Great Britain. That is ALL this State Flag symbolizes.
Perhaps you would have preferred that Great Britain would have prevailed? Careful, your extremism is showing.


62 posted on 07/01/2015 8:05:36 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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