Guest Post by Visayas Outpost
What America Must Do
Red, White, and Blue are nice colors for a flag. It is easy to feel ownership of that particular palette as an American, but I remember thinking that the colors rightly stood for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité; the French set of concepts adopted for their Revolution. Thank goodness there is Wiki, that deep well of facts run by the Truth Ministry, to remind me that our American colors represent Valor, Purity, and Vigilance. The Netherlands was the first to use these colors apparently, changing the original orange to red to show separation from the House of Orange. They were becoming a Republic. The French and Russians were thus inspired, adopting similar designs as the monarchies started to fall. Freedom was breaking out all over, and today a whopping number of the world’s flags using these same tricolors.