--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - D. B. O'Brien collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 6 published: 1918-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "D. B. O'Brien, “Our Flag,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 6 (April 1918): 538." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2106unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2106unse start_page: 538 end_page: 538 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2106unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Our Flag Our Flag (Selected) The Red, the White, the Blue, Our flag, Red, White, and Blue, To thee, fair Flag, we are, and always will be true. Through all our days To thee The loyalty that's due We'll pay eternally, Our flag, Red, White, and Blue, Our treasured banner fair, the Red, the White, the Blue. In all the changing years, Befraught with hopes and fears, No stain upon thy glorious field appears; Ah! dear Red, White, and Blue, Our loved Red, White, and Blue, To thee, fair flag, we are and always will be true. Time only brought To thee A fame that fairer grew With each new century. Old flag, Red, White, and Blue, The flag of freedom's cause, the Red, the White, the Blue. D. R. O'Brien.