My favorite symbol of the US is
which was made on 18 September 2001, one week after 11September 2001, with fingerprints of
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 afterHawaii 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, USAflags 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 13stripes, except the 15-star flag that flew from 1795 to 1818 (and wasthe flag
to which Francis Scott Key referred in The Star Spangled Banner),which had 15 stripes.
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