It was a soldier of the Free State, firing on Federals, sighting down his rifle. He was a handsome boy, painfully young, the cold wind ruffling his hair, the clouds of the late fall sky mirrored in his eyes. There are those who look at it with the lament that something unique and wonderful has gone out of the world. 

It's the expression of righteous outrage on the militiaman's face, rather than the quality of the photograph, which makes the picture so beloved, as the spirit of the AISA. It's never become passe or taken for granted, though it has become as familiar and ubiquitous as the image of the Minute Man, or Washington Crossing the Delaware. 

Though there was much debate, especially in the Free State, with this one or that 

The patch that he wore on the sleeve of his gray uniform has become the official Allied standard, taking the place of the Eagle still used in NACOM. If one looks carefully at the photograph, the words at the bottom of the patch can be made out, the banner clutched by a hawk. Faith. Valor. Loyalty.

That unit of Free State Militiamen was called the Gray Hawks, and the photograph itself is known throughout the AISA as The Gray Hawk. 

The story of the Gray Hawks is tragic.

If you want to rile up a good Ally, see him shake his fist in ferocious patriotism and in hatred of the evil abuses of the Federals, just say, “The Battle of Glenridge.” Then stand back, because you’re going to hear about it.