US Liberty Journal: MILLION-MOB-MARCH

About Uncle Sam

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, September 15, 2009

CLEAN Conservatives vs FILTHY Liberals-- A Photographic Essay

Photo by Mary Katharine Ham

Not only were the participants of the 9/12 Taxpayer March on DC mainstream America, ranging from young families pushing strollers and toting young children, to our Senior Citizens, to our brave Veterans, but they were clean to boot.

From the great Gateway Pundit:

CLEAN Conservatives vs FILTHY Liberals-- A Photographic Essay
Posted by Gateway Pundit, September 13, 2009

After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12:

Here's another photo from the nation's capital after the rally that was taken by a wacky lib:

Looks pretty clean.

And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama:

Via Prisca

The democrats were obviously waiting for Big Government to clean up for them.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

THE MILLION MOB MARCH

Odds are the mainstream media will downplay the success of this weekend's march on Washington DC, but a picture speaks a thousand words. There will be many more video and photos to come, but, so far, these are too exciting for words.

A SMASHING success, and it's no wonder Obama skipped town. It could be more, but does it really matter? I'm calling it THE MILLION MOB MARCH, and here's a small collection of inspiring moments to date:

This is time lapse photography -- Awesome!

MSNBC

From TwitPic:

From Atlas Shrugs: