
"Appeal To Heaven" was chosen to appear on the First Navy Flag on the first Continental Navy ship Hannah on 2 September in the Year of Our Lord 1775, commissioned by Commander in Chief George Washington. The motto comes from John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government. Often the flag motto is shown wrong, it says "An Appeal To Heaven", that implies a singular event or a single man (male or female). Our nation's Navy knew that Appeal To Heaven was an ongoing imperative, for all of US.
The very talented and technically proficient "Colonel" Steve Isom, member of the board of the wonderful Cayce Historical Museum in South Carolina, has done "double duty" with his enhancement of a video prepared for the Navy Chaplain's Convention on 8 November anno domini 2004 at Founders' Inn in Virginia Beach. Due to equipment access limitations, it was never seen at that convention, but the regular, not enhanced version, was shown three times at Gateway Christian School in Virginia Beach in January a.d. 2005 where the fine Christian History scholar Howard Bass is on the faculty of the adjacent Gateway Christian College.