Welcome Home
by Cheryl McClure
Title
Welcome Home
Artist
Cheryl McClure
Medium
Photograph - Photography / Digital Art
Description
Welcome Home and Thank You. Those are the words I would express to a soldier coming home to the country that is free because of their sacrifice. Oil on canvas, photographed and words added digitally.
While visiting in Colorado and driving along the highway near Aurora, I was snapping pictures of the moon rising over the condensed neighborhoods of multi-level frame homes. When I went to reviewing the images, I was totally surprised that the United States flag was in one of my pictures!! I thought this was so fitting to the freedom we experience and the American dream.
The national flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union. Nicknames for the flag include the "Stars and Stripes", "Old Glory", and "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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March 4th, 2014
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