United, Or Die — A Co. (Dark)

United, Or Die — A Co. (Dark)United, Or Die A Co. In 1754 Franklin cut a snake into pieces and printed it under two words: join, or die. The point was brutal and simple a body severed into parts is just a pile of dead segments, but joined, it strikes. A generation later, the colonies took the warning to heart. This back print carries that creed forward: crossed muskets over a coiled rattlesnake, ringed by thirteen stars, stamped 1765 and A Co., under the charge United, Or Die.

Scatter and you're finished

Designed by 1765 Apparel Co

the words men have died to mean: For God and Country

Most Americans don't know their country has a heavenly patroness

she handed him his shield with five words: with your shield — or on it

Before the town wakes

The altar before the state

and men have whispered it in foxholes and squad cars ever since — because Michael is the patron of soldiers and the terror of hell

wings spread

Stay awake

raised to glory

You'll feel the difference the first time you put it on