{"id":698,"date":"2013-10-24T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2024-09-08T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T16:43:27","slug":"war-makes-strange-flag-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/war-makes-strange-flag-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"War makes strange flag-fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

When war breaks out, former friends can become enemies, and one-time foes might turn into allies. As a result, once-hated flags get saluted and formerly beloved banners are banished. That was certainly true when World War I began nearly 100 years ago, as demonstrated in patriotic postcards of the period.<\/p>\n

\"WWI<\/a>
WWI French postcard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For example, a French postcard from around 1918 shows the spirit of liberty surrounded by banners and pointing the way to victory with a sword. She hovers above a soldier and a French slogan: \u201cVictory through the effort of all!\u201d<\/p>\n

The flags arrayed around her include, of course, France<\/span><\/a> and England<\/span><\/a>, but you\u2019d probably be astonished by the presence of the Japanese flag<\/span><\/a> with its red rising sun. About 20 years later, Great Britain and France would be ardent foes of Japan, but it joined the Allies against Germany in the Great War.<\/p>\n

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\"Flags<\/a>
Flags of WWI allies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another postcard shows an American eagle atop the Star-Spangled Banner<\/span><\/a> with a dozen other standards in rows. Again, expectations are met by the presence of British, French and Russian flags<\/span><\/a> flapping in the wind. But the flags of Japan and Italy<\/span><\/a>, who would be foes of America in the Second World War, wave proudly in sync with the U.S.<\/p>\n

\"WWI<\/a>
WWI postcard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A WWI postcard that could have been sent, unchanged, in WWII bears the flags of England, the U.S. and France, who would remain united from 1914, the beginning of the First World War, to 1945, the end of the Second \u2013 and on to today.<\/p>\n

Labeled \u201cFlags of the Allies,\u201d the card includes a poem: \u201cIn War\u2019s dark day this trinity\/Led countless hosts to victory\/With colors pridefully unfurled\/To bring peace to a grateful world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"1915<\/a>
1915 French postcard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A humorous 1915 postcard from France uses flags to ridicule the Germans. It shows a hulking Teutonic soldier making off with French booty, including a hatbox, clock, bloomers and a parrot. Strapped to his back is a piano.<\/p>\n

Watching him is a French soldier whose war prizes are the furled standards, helmets and sabers of defeated German units.<\/p>\n

Under the German, a caption says, \u201cWhat they steal.\u201d Under the Frenchman, it reads, \u201cWhat we take.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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