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Author:	Staff Editor	Created:	5/26/2009 9:41 PM
MCL Legislative Updates

North Carolina Legislative Update May 2009

By Staff Editor on 5/31/2009 11:32 AM

Bills of Interest to Marine Crops Veterans in the North Carolina General Assembly 2009-2010

Click on one of the bills listed below to read the history and status.

H366, Edition 1 Locate Veterans Affairs Nursing Home at WCU.

S298, Edition 1 (= H1143) Military Wartime Veteran Special Plate Change.

H1639, Edition 1 Expand Disabled Vet Homestead Exclusion.

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Why the Gadsden Flag?

By Staff Editor on 5/18/2009 10:21 PM

What's particularly interesting about the Gadsden Flag for us is that some of the Marines that enlisted in that month in Philadelphia, November 1775, were carrying drums painted yellow, emblazoned with a fierce rattlesnake, coiled and ready to strike, with thirteen rattles, and sporting the motto "Don't Tread on Me." The Flag became a symbol for American Independence.

In December 1775, "An American Guesser" anonymously wrote to the Pennsylvania Journal:

"I observed on one of the drums belonging to the Marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest...

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