The Black Flag

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	The Black Flag


	The Football Mom’s for Great Bend High School purchased a break-away run-through for the Panthers football team. The run-through will be used at away games, and freshman and junior varsity games at home. View Larger

Many years ago, one of the forms of communication was to raise a flag. This was a common way for seagoing vessels to communicate to one another. The phrase “raise the white flag” still means to surrender. When a ship would see a pirate ship approach, it would either surrender or raise a black flag. As the ships did in the pirate days, we raise the black flag. This signifies that we ...

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