Thirteen
bars and fifty starts. This is how we named our blog and it is also the main characteristic
of the American flag but do you all know why the American flag is made of bars,
stars and the colors white, blue and red? I will devote this post just to
explain the meaning and importance of this flag.
This
peculiar flag is made up by fifty stars, thirteen bars and the colors red, blue
and white. Did you know what the stars and the bars symbolize? Maybe some of
you do so, I will explain it to the ones who don’t. On one hand, The stars,
that are white, symbolize the fifty states of the US.
On the
other hand, the bars. The bars are all equal and they are settled horizontally.
The colors used for this bars are red and white. These bars represent the union
of the first thirteen colonies that got separated from the British Crown in
1777.
As for the
colors, according to a book named Our flag, they had no meaning at all
at the beginning in 1777. However, they did get a meaning in 1782; white as
their skin, read as their blood and blue as their sky and their justice.
Curiosities:
1. Did you
know that the first American flag had no stars at all? Instead of stars, it had
a small representation of the British flag.
2. The first American flag that had stars
contained thirteen.
3. The
number of stars increased when the states added to America.
4. The last
state which added to America was Hawái in 1960.
6. This
flag is the only one in the world that has been waved on the moon.
By
Francisco Manuel Alfonso Sánchez
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