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"DON'T TREAD ON ME"

The message on the flag shown here is certainly not intended to discourage visitors to the Juliett 484.

The flag, consisting of a rattlesnake superimposed across 13 horizontal red and white stripes with the motto "DON'T TREAD ON ME" is a replica of the flag first employed by Commodore Esek Hopkins in 1775 as he readied the Continental Navy in the Delaware River.

His signal for the whole fleet to engage the enemy was the striped jack and ensign flown at their proper places.

The temporary substitution of this jack aboard all commissioned U. S. Navy ships was ordered by the Chief of Naval Operations on August 30, 2002 to honor those who died September 11, 2001.

It is to be flown by Navy ships for the duration of the Global War on Terrorism.

This flag was generously donated by Volunteer Ken Johnson.







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