Last winter’s flag bookazine brought in good numbers for The American Legion, through retail sales and Emblem Sales alike. The 116-page “Indivisible: The Story of Our Flag” was designed to be both educational and engrossing, in order to best tell the story of the American flag and the Legion’s history with it. Posts, districts and departments were encouraged to buy them in bulk and resell them as a 100th Anniversary fundraiser, or to simply distribute them where needed. It was the latter suggestion that the Department of West Virginia took to heart. The department ordered 25 copies of “Indivisible” on behalf of Americanism Chairman Shannon Harshbarger. Harshbarger, a member of Post 16 in Huntington, gave away four books during the department mid-winter conference, and another four at the department convention to volunteers who helped him on the Americanism Committee. He gave six copies to the Cabell County Library System, and eight to the Cabell County Board of Education; two went to local high schools and six to middle schools. It’s important for young people to have access to resources like this because, he says, “we don’t really teach history like we used to.” Harshbarger has retained a few copies for elementary schools he visits. He has honed his flag etiquette presentations to an art, bringing copies of the National Headquarters-produced “Let's Be Right on Flag Etiquette” and the “For Which It Stands” DVD. (He says children are more receptive to multimedia than simply talking.) He brings members of his post’s honor guard with him, and has the teacher select a student to help them fold the flag. The student gets a service medallion, and Harshbarger says it’s often a source of fascination to the fellow students. Harshbarger says he considers “Indivisible” a good way to cover two of the Four Pillars at once – Americanism and Youth. His overall impression of the bookazine? “Very well done.”