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Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment

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The First Flag

The flag was so unimportant that the continental congress didn't even bother to specify where to put the stars and stripes. So it's possible that he designed the flag, and then george washington asked betsy ross to you bring the hopkinson, you know, design to life. And ideally there would be a paper trail laying all this history out, but there just isn't.

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