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Monday, April 21, 2014
Almost every corner of the globe has been somehow influenced partly or greatly by the presence of the American flag and the nation that it represents. The flag, which embodies the virtues and the greatness of a proud nation may be a piece of fabric that is strewn with insignia and figures, but is nonetheless a grail of a unique, colorful, and rich history, a citizenry of great people of past and current, and a collection of trials and triumphs, all of which results to a nation that is regarded as one of the powerful countries here on earth.

Any self respecting citizen of the United States would definitely agree with the fact that the country which the American flag symbolizes and represents is the patriotic sentiments that go along with the independence of the nation – justice, liberty, equality, gallantry, and what have you.

The American flag is a typically full sized rectangular flag similar to other national flags, with a horizontal orientation facing the right. It is patterned with thirteen stripes of alternating white and red, with an exception at the upper leftmost portion where it is made of blue and stars numbering fifty. These stars are the fifty states that the United States is currently composed of, and the thirteen stripes represent the original colonies which rose up against the British colonization during the war of independence.


The stars were supposedly six pointed, as preferred by then former president George Washington, but upon consultation with a key personality in the name of Betsy Ross the stars were finalized to have five points instead. Upon the raising of the first United States flag after the British colonization on January 1, 1977, the American flag flies as proud today as it was when it was first done.

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by: The Flagman