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James Montgomery Flagg (my Grandfather) created the original Uncle Sam "I Want You". Although most researches will refer to JMF as the model of his original Uncle Sam, nothing could be farther from the truth. My Mother tried her adult life to correct this error, and I will carry on this monumental task, with the advent of the internet perpetuating it.

In 1916, JMF reluctantly accepted a 4th of July project by Leslie‘s Magazine, and eventually found his Uncle Sam one rainy night on a train bound for Parris Island, where he was to unveil a portrait of the Commandant.

His "symbol of our country" was a young, roughly 17 year old, Marine, which he considered the finest branch of our armed forces. He was able to acquire a 24 hour pass for this "boot" not normally allowed off base, and he aged his model's adolescent face by forty years and turned a circus clown's costume into symbolic dignity (as told to me and written by his daughter, my mother, Faith).

This cover was eventually made into a recruiting poster, at the request of the State Dept, and is now recognized as the most famous war poster of our time.

By WWII, JMF had ironically begun to look remarkably like his original Uncle Sam, and he did indeed use his mirror image in several new posters. When FDR is quoted as saying "saving model hire" in a personal letter to JMF, he is referring to the 2nd World War posters.

Faith would say, "I thought you might find the facts more fun than the fantasies."

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Video: Charles Krauthammer Speaks at Heritage on “The Age of Obama”

Dr. Charles Krauthammer is one of the most brilliant syndicated writers of our time. He is the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, and began writing a weekly column for the Washington Post in 1985. He is also part of the distinguished panel on Fox News, and a necessary daily fix for this amateur writer.

Video: Charles Krauthammer Speaks at Heritage on “The Age of Obama”
Posted by Mike Brownfield, January 25, 2010, The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Charles Krauthammer, who described President Barack Obama’s first 12 months in office as “the year of living fecklessly,” spoke at The Heritage Foundation last week on “The Age of Obama” and gave his views of the President’s first year of foreign policy.

Watch his speech below and be inspired:

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Video: Charles Krauthammer Speaks at Heritage on “The Age of Obama”

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