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Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment

99% Invisible

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Do You Know How to Design a Flag?

George ross was not a member of congress in the spring of 76. He's elected later that year, i believe, at the end of the summer. And so he would not have been on a congressional committee charged with acquiring a new flag. The other powdered whig who supposedly joined washington on that trip to betsy ross's shop, he was famously opposed to american independence. So that doesn't make sense.

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