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The gate was a gift, to replace one broken by fox hunters, and the lady driving the truck was a stranger. *
Our dear Washington lady had to stand on the front lawn and be introduced to the lady who was delivering the gift gate.
If someone had just been there with a camera! What wouldn’t be paid for a picture of the barefoot dignity behind those oxfords with the silver chain, graciously acknowledging an introduction and accepting the gift of the new gate!
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Shades of our grandsires who wore the gray!
A county youngster—well up in high school—pulled a boner the other day that sent our grandfathers whirling in their graves.
Quoth the youngster: “Lcfbk at that car. Must be some British official in dt; it has the British flag oa it.”
In all your innocence and ignorance, youngster, please be hereby informed: there is a vast difference in the British flag and the Confederate battle flag!
To begin with, the British flag would not be flying from a car. (And remind me sometime to concoct a vitriolic flow of language to express my opinion of people who take our Stars and Stripes and cheaply use it on automobiles.)
The reason you see the Confederate battle flag on cars is because the University of Virginia Cavaliers carry the flag as their symbol of fighting southern spirit, especially when they cro^s the Mason-Dixon line. They enjoy carrying it to Pennsylvania, and one of these days, youngster, if you get to perusing a little history of yollr grandsires, you’ll learn why.
-yfPrinter John Dunlap
Found Immortality In
One Line of Type
(Every school child knows that Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of Independence, and many konw that John Hancock's signature was first at the bottom of it. Herewith is a story of one of America’s first printers, who was privileged to have a hand in the making of American freedom. The story is too-seldom told, and. it appears here as written by Lee Grove for The Washington Post.
editor’s note.)
“Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap.”
That line in small type at the bottom of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence will
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