Wilmington High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Wilmington, MA)

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,s'getsyH5gEfLeeAtne needienoMsn'Wnosenfnngers Wrodght,w1th.love ing eere the first sample of-the Stars and StP1P9S, Wh1Ch WHS ale most identical with the flag, We KHQW t0dHY.u .4 4 Late in the spring of 1776 here littie stop in Philadelphia was visited by some distinguished patrons. A committee, heeded by George Washington called on Mrs. Rose and submitted s rough design of s new type of flag, in which stsrs had been substituted for the crosses of Sn. George and St. Andrew,- Ths oommittee was of the opinion that the stars should be giyopointed, But Mrs, Ross, so the story goes, showed them how' s Qdve pointed stsr could be made with one snip of the scissors? and her suggestion was adopted., s Unfortunately no record of this Wfirstu flag has been prese I erred. However, Betsy told the story over and over again to her iohildren end grandchildren and it has been authenticated by Bete sy's'desoendsnts. u ' t The flagfs first official b1r:fr-ehasy was June 14, lvfzfs. On thatfdate Congress resolved nThst the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: Lists the Union he thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing s new oonste11etion.W s From time to time slight changes in the flag have been sudhe orized by Congress. dBoth the flags used at Tripoli and et Fort McHenry had fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, s design that ree s msdned in vogue from 1795 until 1818. Then Congress authorized s return of thefflag to its original form of thirteen str1pes,. , ' . W one star being added there after for each State entering the Union '- R Paul Peltzsoh

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