Flag of the free heart's hope and home, You love the American flag. We know this because we know that you love America and want to learn to read its history. The history that has made America is the same history that has made its flag. Therefore, where this book tells you about the one, it tells about the other. When you learn how America has grown, you learn how the flag has grown. When you learn what America stands for, you learn what the flag stands for. This flag stands for everything that we love. It stands for freedom; it stands for opportunity; it stands for a government under which the people make their own laws and choose the men and women whom they want to govern them. Let us read the following pages together. They tell us how our country came to be what it is. They tell us of the hardships and struggles, the achievements and successes of those who have helped to make the United States of America. They show us why it is a good country to live in. They show us also how we can help to make our good country a still better one. enjoy reading and studying what writing. We hope you will we have enjoyed THE AUTHORS |