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My favorite symbol of the US is

which was made on 18 September 2001, one week after 11 September 2001, with fingerprints of

Miss Lydia's 4 year old class

at St. Patrick's Preschool in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

 

The present 50-star USA flag

has been the official USA flag since the 4th of July 1960 after Hawaii became a state on 21 August 1959.

The orginal 13-star USA flag

was adopted on 14 June 1777.

From between the original 13 stars and the present 50 stars, USA flags had 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, and 49 stars. All of them had 13 stripes, except the 15-star flag that flew from 1795 to 1818 (and was the flag

to which Francis Scott Key referred in The Star Spangled Banner), which had 15 stripes.

 

The web site at www.usflag.org (the source of the 50-star, 13-star, and 15-star images shown above) has images and details about each and all of those flags.

 

 


 

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