Saturday 2 July 2016

By Adam Bright


Sweeping from the eastern border and curving northward through the center of Arizona a cool, green mountain and valley wonderland was formed. Its altitudes vary from 2,000 to 8,000 feet and are sharply cut by the Mogollon Rim, a sheer cliff extending for more than 200 miles and itself rising to heights of 7,500 feet. The origination of the Arizona State Flag can be taken back to the 1910 National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio before Arizona formally entered the union. Shooting matches began at Camp Perry in 1907 and immediately framed into a prestigious yearly event that happens till the present time.

Members of the visiting Arizona Rifle Team noticed that all of the other "state" rifle teams carried flags or emblems. The Arizona team had no such flag or emblem and brought this to the attention of Arizona National Guard Colonel Charles Wilfred Harris, who was serving as the team captain. The team suggested that a flag is created to represent the Arizona Rifle Team at future National Rifle Matches.

The designer of the Arizona Flag was Colonel Charles W. Harris, Arizona's adjutant general, and chief administrative officer. He had also designed the flag for the Arizona Rifle Team, that bore a resemblance to the Arizona State Flag.

Arranged by Colonel Charles W. Harris, the first standard, passed on by the Arizona Rifle Team to the National Rifle Matches in 1911, was sewn by Nan D. Hayden. In1912, Colonel Harris arranged a state standard that was similar to the flag that he proposed for the Arizona Rifle Team. Measuring four feet high and six feet wide, the standard is apportioned into a top and base half with an immeasurable five-point copper star in the center. The Arizona State Flag was gotten by the Arizona State Legislature in 1917.

These red and yellow colors were also used Spanish expedition of Coronado in 1540, searching the 7 cities of Cibola. The rays are the Union's 13 original colonies and they also symbolize the rays of the sun. The 5 pointed copper star represents Arizona as the biggest producer of copper in the country. The lower half of the Arizona Flag is the exact Liberty blue used by the US Flag. The Arizona Flag beautifully combines the colors red, blue, yellow and copper to produce an amazing state flag.

There is a barrage of cheap and inferior Arizona flags being imported and sold, that do not comply with the flag statute. This is bad for a number of reasons. Imported flags are cheaply made and more importantly, the designs, materials, colors, and methods of printing do not compare well with the better quality, longer-lasting, and correctly designed flags made by American manufacturers. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Arizona flag for the future.




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