Stars and Stripes

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20 Oct 2009

More trivia than you can shake a flag at. (via)

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Dave

October 25th, 2009 at 8:09 pm

It says that there is speculation that the ‘stars’ were intended to convey the heavens by Betsy Ross. Unlikely as anything with less than six points is a ‘spur’ and was not considered a star emblem at the time of the original pressing.

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