Excellent post!
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Excellent post!
Our city's namesake established a tradition of changing (or adding to) official colors:
"It was Lafayette who argued for the addition of a white stripe to “nationalize” the design and include all citizens"
"On July 17, 1789, Louis XVI came to Paris to recognize the new National Guard, sporting the blue and red cockade, to which the Commander of the Guard, Marquis de Lafayette, it appears, had added white."
They’re missing Boomer’s leather helmet.