Americans who wear the Punisher skull signify spiritual fidelity to the dark heart of murder beating underneath the red, white and blue façade of American identity.

The symbol took to the seas as a form of shorthand for captains, who noted the sailors who died with a little skull and crossbones next to their name in the ship’s log. In this way, seafaring folks came to associate the symbol with death–perhaps what inspired pirates to use it to terrify ships in the 18th century.

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The Golden Age of Piracy, a period spanning the mid 17th and early 18th centuries, was when high-seas piracy was at its peak. It was during this time that pirate flags began to bear symbols of violence and death—such as the skull and crossbones—designed to frighten and intimidate a pirate’s intended victims.

A skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two long bones crossed together under or behind the skull. The design originated in the Late Middle Ages as a symbol of death and especially as a memento mori on tombstones.

Flotilla commanders began to issue flags to submarines, and procedures were drafted for usage. The symbols on a Jolly Roger are used to indicate the achievements of the submarine. Bars represented ships torpedoed, although post-war flags have sometimes used the silhouette of the target ship instead.

The Navy announced today a ban on smoking aboard submarines while they are deployed below the surface after medical testing showed non-smokers suffered effects of second-hand smoke. Mark Jones of the Commander Naval Submarine Forces out of Norfolk, Va., said about 40 percent of the submarine sailors are smokers.

There are no laws that prohibit the flying of the Jolly Roger flag in the U.S., but Flying one could be trickier than that. Jolly Roger- or a ‘pirate flag’ in lay man’s term could be easily incorporated with a black flag containing a white skull and crossbones with it. So, in general, it could be easily identified.

Historical accounts indicate that, should a pirate ship raise a black flag, it indicated that so long as the ship they were attacking surrendered with no resistance, they would be given quarter. This flag indicated that no mercy would be shown to anyone aboard the ship that was about to be attacked.

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In U.S. territorial waters there are no laws prohibiting the flying of the Jolly Roger or any other flags, or requiring any flags be flown.

What does a black American Flag mean? Black flags have historically been used to signify that no quarter will be given. When translated into modern language, this means that captured enemy combatants will be killed rather than taken prisoner.

In general, black flags are used by enemy forces to signify that no quarter will be given. What that means is that, during war, enemy combatants are going to be killed rather than taken prisoner.

In auto racing, a signal to a driver during a race, made by waving a solid black flag, indicating that the driver must stop and consult an official. …

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Likewise, what does black and gray flag mean? The black stripe represents asexuality, the grey stripe the grey-are between sexual and asexual, the white stripe sexuality, and the purple stripe community. The Transgender Pride flag was designed by Monica Helms.

Basically, the idea behind the backward American flag on Army uniforms is to make it look as though the flag is flying in the breeze as the person wearing it moves forward. During the Civil War, both mounted cavalry and infantry units would designate a standard bearer, who carried the flag into battle.

Today the flag consists of 13 horizontal stripes, seven red alternating with six white. The colors of the flag are symbolic as well; red symbolizes hardiness and valor, white symbolizes purity and innocence, and blue represents vigilance, perseverance and justice.

The Hawaiian flag upside down is a sign of protest against the United States government. Most commonly, it is to represent the solidarity movement of Hawaii. This is rooted in the notion that when Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown in 1893, what followed was an illegal occupation by the United States.

The flag folding ceremony represents the same religious principles on which our country was originally founded. In the Armed Forces of the United States, at the ceremony of retreat the flag is lowered, folded in a triangle fold and kept under watch throughout the night as a tribute to our nation’s honored dead.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states within the United States and the 13 stripes represent the 13 British Colonies that rebelled against the British Monarchy and became the first states in the Union. The colors were also chosen to represent very specific characteristics of our nation.

49-star American Flag On January 3rd, 1959, the 49 star flag became the official flag of the United States. Alaska was the 49th state formally granted statehood under an Executive order by President Eisenhower (January 3rd, 1959).

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States of the U.S. There are fifty (50) states and Washington D.C.The last two states to join the Union were Alaska (49th) and Hawaii (50th). Both joined in 1959.

The United States of America USA has had 50 states since 1959. The District of Columbia is a federal district, not a state. Many lists include DC and Puerto Rico, which makes for 52 “states and other jurisdictions”. The flag has 50 stars, one for each state.

Puerto Rico is designated in its constitution as the “Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”. The Constitution of Puerto Rico, which became effective in 1952, adopted the name of Estado Libre Asociado (literally translated as “Free Associated State”), officially translated into English as Commonwealth, for its body politic.

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