The flag of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan was adopted in 1948. It was designed in 1907 by David E. Heineman.
The flag has the city seal emblazoned on quartered background, with each section representing a country that once controlled the city. The lower hoist (left) quarter represents France, which founded the fort and settlement in 1701; it has five gold fleurs-de-lis on a white field. The upper fly (right) quarter represents the Kingdom of Great Britain, which controlled the fort from 1760 to 1796; it has three gold lions on a red field. The lower fly and upper hoist quarters represent the United States; they have 13 stripes and stars, respectively, representing the original thirteen colonies.
The two Latin motto's read Speramus Meliora and Resurget Cineribus, meaning "We hope for better things" and "It will rise from the ashes." The seal is a representation of the Detroit fire of June 11, 1805 in which the entire city burned with only one building saved from the flames. The figure on the left weeps over the destruction while the figure on the right gestures to the new city that will rise in in its place.
Posted by Wintermute 2 at June 26, 2010 03:13 PMNow the flag should have the image of a beggar rattling a cup...
Thanks big business!
She shall rise from the ashes once again!
Posted by: wintermute at June 28, 2010 07:07 PMNot before those ashes are soaked in the urine and feces of the Big Businesses who wish to extract the last possible morsel of worth from the land.
It will arise again, a shadow of it's former self, castrated by world economics; the toothless tiger which is just....so "American".
So goes Detroit, so goes the nation.
Revelation 18:10
Two legs good, four legs better!
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