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Virtus is not a woman - Virtus is a man. It is not a woman depicted on the Seal of the Commonwealth, it is a man wearing simple clothes (or a commoner) conquering an oppressive tyrant. This article should be fixed.
- Virtus may be male, but he (or she) is _depicted as female_ on the state flag; specifically, she is depicted as "an Amazon". (Remember, this article is about the Virginia State Flag, not about Virtus.) The little jpeg doesn't really do it justice, but if you look at an actual, full-size flag, it's an obvious woman. I'd mention that the official description of the flag refers to Virtus, but uses the pronoun "her" and "she" throughout. *Unfortunately*, that official description was apparently "repealed" in late 2005. I wonder if they officially set Virtus back to male; I'm not exactly certain how to look up the relevent changes, so you may very well be correct. At any rate, I won't change the article, since I'm not /absolutely/ sure as to the /current/ state of the flag. (I grew up in Virginia, and there was a huge honkin' state flag on the basement wall, right above the computer monitor. After a decade of staring at it while waiting for games to load or programs to compile, I've become pretty familiar with it. Though, admittedly, it was a 1970's-era flag.) 207.96.8.128 02:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- [[Seal as described in the Code of Virginia]] Vitus takes the feminine possessive pronoun (her)Rljenk 02:04, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Lincoln assasination
It should be mentioned in the article that the state motto of VA was shouted out by John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assasination --V. Joe 05:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
