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Well there are many thoughts on the matter, the legend is that George Washington drew the sketch of it brought it to Betsy Ross and she sewed it. It stands on un-determinable ground though.

It is thought and probable that a congressmen named Francis Hopkinson was the designer of the flag.

There are thirteen stripes on the flag alternating red and white representing the thirteen original colonies. And there were to begin with thirteen stars in the upper corner on the "field of blue" to represent a "new consolation", (a new nation.)

The meaning of the colors is this: according to Charles Thompson the stripes, (red and white,) represent those who fought for and signed the Declaration of Independence. In Purity, (which is the meaning of white,) and written in there blood, (meaning of red.) The blue represents "vigilance, perseverance & justice."

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