American Flag Cubs Hat

For the past week in my Anerican Studies class we have been talking about the American Flag and how it can be represented in different ways. We have talked about how people use the flag as plates on the fourth of July and how after September 11th how a lot of Americans hung a flag, and how now a lot of those people have taken down their flags. We talked about how people when they run a marathon afterwards they drape themselves with an American Flag. Isn't that disrespectful? putting the flag all over your sweaty body. We talked about how they lay the flag over a dead soldiers coffin and how that is a honor to have the flag. We also talked about how you can not burn the flag and you can not have the flag touch the ground, and you have to fold the flag in a certain way.

This weekend we were supposed to take a picture of the flag in some way and analyze it. I decided to take a picture of one of my Cubs hats. In the "C" on the hat there is an American Flag. This is the hat that they wore last September 11th. All the teams in baseball wear the same thing, it has their logo and an American Flag in it. I think that it is interesting that they have the baseball players all wear the American Flags in a suttle way. I also think that it is interesting that they would sell the hats for Americans to buy. Since baseball is an American sport and most Americans watch it, I think that it is interesting that they would choose that sport to wear an Amerian Flag. We know how the flag is used in other places and times, like times of war the flag is used to represent our country. I think that in this case where the flag is on the hat, it is there to remember what happened on September 11th. I think that it is interesting that baseball is still remembering, but other Americans are taking down their flags. In my house we used to only put the flag up aroung July 4th. Now we have the flag up all year long hanging outside our house.