Yes it is history time at the ol' ball park! I never get tired of the legend of "Don't Tread on Me"

And I cant speak for all of America but here in lil East TN I rarely go out in public on the road for more than 15 minutes and don't see it on a car or heck occasionally a billboard or a sign etc. THIS IS AMERICAN HISTORY despite how badly some want to make it something else!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Navy_Jack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag

Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

"I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shewn and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?"^[3]