American Flag in pop culture?…?
Google has been little help, or I am not searching for the right thing.
I am doing a research paper on the American Flag being a symbol for our culture. I have included stories of famous American Flag references, but I am looking for something in pop culture such as…
Famous song about American Flag(not the Star Spangled Banner, I have it…)
Famous picture or art
Famous clothing or something like that
Famous anything that has to do with the American Flag! That I can at least write five sentences on.
Please and thank you, I appreciate it.
2 Responses
Reggie Williams
23 Apr 2011
Joe
23 Apr 2011
Start here: just for some background on the flag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States
While the Betsy Ross legend is questionable, the flag design is known to have been in use by 1777; Alfred B. Street described it at the surrender of General Burgoyne and understood the circle of stars to represent equality among the American states. It is one of the oldest versions of U.S. flags known to exist; while it is not the oldest surviving flag artifact in cloth form, its likeness appears on older physical relics, namely, the contemporary battlefield paintings by John Trumbull and Charles Willson Peale. They depict the circular star arrangement being flown from ship masts and many other places, and thus provide the first known historical documentation of the flag’s appearance.
Pop Culture:
Flag on the moon
Evel Knievel
Peter Fonda’s, Easy Rider Jacket with U.S Flag
Music:
Taps
what about the american flag being hoisted on top of the rubble after 9/11 by firemen…
or the iwo jima flag rasing…. its kinda famous