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Introduction: The following explanation of the colors and symbolic meaning of the “Stars and Stripes” was written by a member of the Constitutional Congress to whom, with others, was committed the duty of selecting a flag for the infant Republic. (Reprinted from: The Border Sentinel, Mound City, KS 6 May 1864.)
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The Border Sentinel (2019). "The American Flag," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2019/aspiration/7
The American Flag
Introduction: The following explanation of the colors and symbolic meaning of the “Stars and Stripes” was written by a member of the Constitutional Congress to whom, with others, was committed the duty of selecting a flag for the infant Republic. (Reprinted from: The Border Sentinel, Mound City, KS 6 May 1864.)
