{"id":40502,"date":"2015-03-18T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40502"},"modified":"2015-03-18T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:19:02","slug":"old-glory-the-symbol-of-one-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40502","title":{"rendered":"Old Glory: The Symbol of One America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1696heritage.com\/old-glory-the-symbol-of-one-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Old Glory: The Symbol of One America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1696heritage.com\" target=\"_blank\">1696 Heritage Group<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithnpt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Keith Stokes<\/strong><\/a>, Vice President<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1696heritage.com\/old-glory-the-symbol-of-one-america\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1696heritage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Richard-5-e1426476659438-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Southern_United_States#Antebellum_era_.281781.E2.80.931860.29\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richmond,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond, Virginia<\/a>. Just as the photograph represented a new era in the technology of imagery, young Forrester, and others like him, represented a new-fangled generation of what it meant to be an American. Our national motto, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E_pluribus_unum\" target=\"_blank\">E Pluribus Unum<\/a>\u201d <em>Out of Many, One<\/em>, whose meaning some have come to suggest that out of many ethnicities, races, and religions would emerge a single people and America, seems to be embodied by the little boy pictured. And Forrester, who was my great, grandfather, with blended Jewish and Christian religion; black, Indian and white race; and northern and southern political persuasion, would grow and defend his right to be called an American.<\/p>\n<p>After four long years of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_Army\" target=\"_blank\">Union Troops<\/a> on the morning of April 3, 1865 entered the city of Richmond, Virginia then capital of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederate States of America<\/a>. Richmond had become the single-minded focus of the Union war effort, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">civil war<\/a> between Americans of Northern and Southern persuasions that would claim an estimated three quarter of a million combatants&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1696heritage.com\/old-glory-the-symbol-of-one-america\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Glory: The Symbol of One America 1696 Heritage Group 2015-03-16 Keith Stokes, Vice President Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850 The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of antebellum Richmond, Virginia. Just as the photograph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,20,693],"tags":[19663,19662,19661,19660,19659,8406],"class_list":["post-40502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-1696-heritage-group","tag-keith-stokes","tag-richard-forrester","tag-richard-g-forrester","tag-richard-gill-forrester","tag-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}