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Thursday, July 24, 2014
The American Flag is a symbol of the nation’s highest sense of pride and symbolism, encompassing all the citizenry, sovereignty, and all else that is American. While there whole history of the American Flag would take a whole book to write about, here are some of the highlights and short trivia on how this flag came to be as it is seen today.
There are two personalities to whom the origin of the very first American Flag is attributed. The first is Betsy Ross,but it was not made certain who made the very first official flag of the United States of America. Since the original myth that laid claim of her identity with the flag was made years after her death. Nevertheless, the validity of those that support the idea is attributed to her being very active in the colonial times, making flags for Colonial America.
The second person most attributed to the official American Flag is Francis Scott Key. He made references to the Star Spangled Banner in his poem during the War that happened in 1812. Patriotism was already high during those times, that the national anthem was created to solidify the hymn that would unite all Americans to a great nation today. As an added trivia, how awesome is it to think that the National Anthem was made into music with references in tune with an Old English Song entitled To Anacreon in Heaven.

Whatever the American Flag and accompanying anthem may be, one thing is certain – that these two symbolic creations have been forged from the patriotism and nationalistic pride of a great nation.

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by: The Flagman