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Get a Dollar Bill

     The back of a $1 bill can teach us about the meaning of the Revolution we have inherited and are meant to pass on to the next generation. (This blog thanks to Christopher Flannery). 

     "On the right side is the front of the Great Seal. An American bald eagle bears a shield with 13 vertical stripes, clutching 13 arrows and an olive branch. The eagle's head is turned right toward the olive branch, the symbol of peace and war (we fight wars for the sake of peace) exclusively vested in Congress. A scroll in the eagle's beak reads E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one), and a crest contains 13 stars from which a "glory" emanates through a cloud."

     "On the left of the dollar bill is the backside of the Seal, a pyramid unfinished. In the Zenith an Eye in a triangle surrounded with a glory proper. Over the Eye - Annuit Coeptis (He approves of what has been started). On the base of the pyramid, numerical letters for 1776, and the motto, Novus Ordo Seclorum, meaning 'New Order of the Ages.' The pyramid signifies strength and duration. The Eye over it and the Motto allude to providence in favor of the American cause." 

     "The date is that of the Declaration of Independence and words under it mean the beginning of the new American Era. America had to win the war with England before leaders could concentrate on the Great Seal."

     "Flannery writes, 'We still live in that new American era. The early work of freedom aspiring to be worthy of divine approval is always unfinished. So long as we appeal, as in the beginning, 'to the Supreme Judge of the world, we may, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, with good hearts, pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.'" 

     Note how intelligent some of those founders were.