To: whoever; AFF
"OLD GLORY!
This famous name was coined by Captain Stephen Driver, a shipmaster of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1831. As he was leaving on one of his many voyages aboard the brig CHARLES DOGGETT - and this one would climax with the rescue of the mutineers of the BOUNTY - some friends presented him with a beautiful flag of twenty four stars. As the banner opened to the ocean breeze for the first time, he exclaimed "Old Glory!"
I did not know this.
114 posted on
07/04/2002 11:21:03 AM PDT by
lodwick
To: lodwick; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Mama_Bear; Scuttlebutt; g'nad; shigure
..As the banner opened to the ocean breeze for the first time, he exclaimed "Old Glory!" ..I did not know that either. Thanks for posting it.
124 posted on
07/04/2002 11:51:57 AM PDT by
whoever
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