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December 27, 2006

Don't Tread On Me


USS Key West (SSN 722) raised the First Navy Jack in place of the Union Jack Wednesday at Pearl Harbor Naval Station to honor those who died during the attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

In a similar ceremony held just across the harbor, the Aegis cruiser USS Port Royal (CG 73) joined the Key West in raising the Navy Jack to remember the innocent men and women who lost their lives one year ago.

The Secretary of the Navy directed that all U.S. Navy ships raise the historic Jack beginning on Sept. 11 and continue to do so throughout the global War on Terrorism. The temporary replacement of the more widely recognized Union Jack represents a historic reminder of the nation’s and Navy’s origin.

The First Navy Jack is a flag consisting of a rattlesnake, superimposed across 13 horizontal alternating red and white stripes with the motto, 'Don’t Tread On Me.'

"First Navy Jack Flies Until End of War," Navy Newstand, September 12, 2002


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Posted at December 27, 2006 05:17 PM | Categories: America

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Believe it or not, the current Navy Jack flag is a "Fake Snake" flag, much scholarship in the flag experts journal Raven of 2004 shows the Fake Snake flag never flew on a Continental or American Navy ship during the Revolutionary War, or any time therafter until some well meaning but historically misinformed Navy officers selected the Fake Snake flag for the Bicentennial flag based on the false legend that developed around it. The True Tree Flag, the evergreen Tree of Liberty flag with the motto "Appeal To Heaven" was the true First Navy Flag. Go to www.FirstNavyFlag.US to learn a great deal about the history of the True Tree flag and the legend of the Fake Snake flag.

For America's future (building up on our past)

James Renwick Manship, Sr.
aka The Spirit of George Washington LIVES!

Posted by: StatesManship [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 28, 2006 11:27 PM

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