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 FLAGS WHICH SIGNALIZED AMERICANS ENTRANCE INTO THE WORLD CONEEICT BEING 

 BORNE INTO ST. PAULAS CATHEDRAL BY THE FIRST AMERICAN TROOPS TO 

 REACH LONDON AFTER THE DECLARATION OF WAR WITH GERMANY 



These Stars and Stripes were blessed in the great English shrine and are to be preserved 

 for all time, together with those of our Allies, whose national emblems, like our own, are 

 waving over the hosts righting for the world's liberty (see page 286). 



"The stars upon it were like the bright 

 morning stars of God, and the stripes 

 upon it were beams of morning light. 

 As at early dawn the stars shine forth 

 even while it grows light, and then as the 

 sun advances that light breaks into banks 

 and streaming lines of color, the glowing 

 red and intense white striving together, 

 and ribbing the horizon with bars efful- 

 gent, so, on the American flag, stars and 

 beams of many-colored light shine out to- 



gether. And wherever this flag comes 

 and men behold it they see in its sacred 

 emblazonry no embattled castles or in- 

 signia of imperial authority ; they see the 

 symbols of light. It is the banner of 

 Dawn." 



BIBLICAL ORIGIN OF THE RED, WHITE, 

 AND BLUE 



Charles W. Stewart, superintendent of 

 naval records and library of the United 



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