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They Will Stand Forever by Virginia Martinez

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I read a book named Somos Mexicanos. There is a part in the beginning of Somos Mexicanos that reminds me of two movies that I saw called The Ten Commandments and The Bible. In the movies people had dreams about God. He would be in their dreams and He would tell them what to do. In the book there’s a part about the priest that had a dream about a war god that came to him. The command was to get a group of people to go “Search until they found an eagle sitting on a cactus eating a serpent. On that spot they were to build their new home.”

There’s nothing mentioned in the book about the Mexican Flag. What is written is that people will see an eagle eating a serpent. That’s what you see in the Mexican flag. It’s not written or explained in the book about the colors of the flag. But I have an idea where the colors came from. I remember my family talked about the soldiers wearing red and green uniforms. The Spaniards wore red and the Mexicans wore green. Maybe the colors came from the uniforms.

It’s like the American Flag. I know that the stars on the American Flag are the states. I don’t know where the colors red, white, and blue come from. Maybe you could tell me? One thing I’m sure about is that when I leave this place forever the two flags will still be standing.

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