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pride in the flag is further recognized by celebrating Flag Day every         1969 by Walter K. Hancock. In South Dakota, a western state, is lo-
year on June 14th. On this day the flag is prominently displayed from         cated another achievement of man’s ability to shape nature into his
the porches of homes and from most public Federal buildings but it is         own image and the achievement is considered to be one of the great
not a legal holiday. This respect for the flag as a symbol of our nation      man-made wonders of the modern world. It is located in the Black
is further enhanced by the special care which is required in handling it      Hills in the southwestern part of the state. It is called the “Shrine of
whenever it is folded and stored away. There are many rituals sur-            Democracy” at Mount Rushmore about twenty-five miles from Rapid
rounding the manner in which the flag is handled and displayed. Even          City. It is visible for 97 kilometers. This monument was conceived by
the folding of the flag follows a certain pattern. The flag is folded in      master sculptor, Gutzon Borglum and was begun in 1927. He was born
such a way that it results in a triangle with the stars exposed in the blue   in Idaho and his first commission was a statue of Abraham Lincoln in
background. When removing the flag from its pole, it is important that        the Capitol in Washington, D. C. This masterpiece in stone consists of
the flag should not be permitted to touch the ground. There is such a         the faces of four U.S. presidents which are 60 feet high each. The
reverence in the handling of the flag that a controversy arose several        monument took 14 years to complete and ranks as one of the great
years ago concerning the willful burning of the flag as a form of protest.    sculptures of the world equal to the colossal figures of gods and kings
Some felt that to burn the flag in certain instances was permissible as a     found in Egyptian temples and tombs. Some have argued that a fifth
symbol of one’s freedom, but most believed that such an act was an            face should be carved next to the existing four, but this would be im-
offense which violated this sacred symbol of American. Most recently          possible because the stone on the rest of the mountain is not of good
a Bill was submitted to Congress making it a crime to desecrate the           quality for carving.
flag in any way. The flag is such a revered symbol of the country’s           The mountain is especially beautiful at dawn and sunset as the light of
identity that every year when resident immigrants become naturalized          the new day and the onset of evening adds the drama of nature to the
Americans, they are required to recite the pledge and salute the flag as      art of man. The sculpture depicts faces which are determined and
part of the ceremony before being granted citizenship.                        strong and the eyes, although made of stone, are vibrant and alive. Not
                                                                              far from Mount Rushmore another gargantuan sculpture is now in pro-
TEXT EIGHT                               FACES CARVED IN STONE                gress. It is located six miles north of Custer and depicts the Great Sioux
                                                                              chieftain, Crazy Horse. It is called the Crazy Horse Memorial. When it
Throughout all ages man has always carved colossal figures out of             is completed it will rival Mount Rushmore in grandeur and stand
stone. This can be seen in the ancient ruins of Egypt, Persia and Baby-       proudly next to the other great sculptures of the world. The sculptor of
lon. In modern times America has also taken up the same challenge and         this monument is Korczak Ziolkowski. He was invited by the Sioux
has carved huge sculptures into her mountains. On the East Coast of             eject in 1946 to carve Crazy Horse into the sacred Black Hills. Al-
America not far from Atlanta, Georgia stands Stone Mountain, the              though Korczak died in 1982 his work was continued by his wife who
largest mass of exposed granite in the world. Carved into the side of         supervises the completion of the sculpture. As of 1998 Crazy Horse’s
this mountain are three tremendous equestrian figures. They are sculp-        face was completed. At present no one knows when the sculpture of
tures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall Jackson.” It is a      Crazy Horse will be completed because of the uncertainty of financing
memorial to the Confederacy. The colossal figure of Lee alone meas-           but for future generations it will be another masterwork carved in stone.
ures 138 feet from the top of his head to the tip of his horse’s hoof. To     A trip to America would not be complete without viewing one of these
see these stone sculptures on the side of a mountain is most impressive       monuments. Their size, scope and grandeur stand as a testimony to
and inspiring. It was commissioned in 1916 and was begun by Gutzon            both art and technology and the grandeur of America.
Borglum, the sculptor of Mt. Rushmore, but was not completed until

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