Flag of the United States

When looking at the vertically hung flag, the stars should be on the top left.

The only one that 'can't' be lowered is flying on the moon. With proper lighting, any American flag can be flown around the clock.

Many different women in the early United States sewed flags. The "American patriotic mythology" names Betsy Ross as sewing the first flag, but this cannot be determined and is actually very unlikely due to the total number of women sewing flags and the slow rate of communication in those days.

Her mother Rebecca, her daughter Caroline, her two nieces Eliza and Margaret, and an indentured servant named Grace Wisher.

• Betsy Ross

Red represents hardiness and valor. White represents purity and innocence. Blue represents vigilance, perseverance, and justice

I cant think of a specific instance when the flag was flown upside down, but it is only done when a US position has been overrun or if there is an emergency there.
A national flag flying upside down is an international sign of distress.

Betsy Ross, she sold it to the government!

Take it to your local VFW Post, and they will dispose of it properly for you.

50 stars are on the US flag, 1 for each state

On June 14th 1777, the Maritime Committee of the Continental Congress Congress passed the first "Flag Resolution" describing our first flag with 13 alternating red and white stripes and 13 stars on a blue union. The design of this flag is attributed to Francis Hopkinson shortly thereafter.

George Wasington, I forgot the other two lol

The perilous fight refers to The War of 1812, more specific the bombing of Fort McHenry which was what inspired the song to be written.

At the beginning of a sentence and when it forms part of the proper noun.

Example:

Philippine National Anthem

This question has no easy answer. To best answer this question we need to first understand the origin of the Betsy Ross' legend.

The Betsy Ross' legend says that in June 1776, General George Washington and a secret committee from the Continental Congress, later identified as George Ross and Robert Morris, assembled to create the first American flag. They went to Ross's upholstery shop, and Washington gave her his sketch. Ross was approached for her skill, as well as her relationship to George Ross, Betsy Ross's uncle who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Ross did not agree with the proposed design of the flag, and she became the mother of our nation's "stars and stripes" by changing Washington's proposed six-pointed star, to a five-pointed star to show American independence. Betsy Ross believed that America should use new imagery, and with one single snip of scissors, she revealed a perfect five-pointed star. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States of America. This is the legend, as told by William Canby, grandson of Betsy Ross, at a meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870.

Betsy Ross' told her tale to her grandson, William Canby, when she was eighty years old. William Canby then relayed the tale, as stated above, for the first time in 1870 at a meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This being the case, the question as to whether or not Betsy Ross really sewed the first American flag is still being investigated. So, we would need have a clear answer to this question before we can start asking when did Besy Ross sew the American flag (if in fact she did). So what do history tells us about this tale?

Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross helped out her husband in their tailoring and upholstery business until his death in a munitions explosion in 1776. Following John Ross' unfortunate and untimely demise, Betsy stepped up to take on full responsibility for the tailoring business which was why-at least according to American myth-no less than George Washington himself showed up at the tailor store one day in June of 1776. The legend goes that George Washington met with Betsy Ross specifically to discuss a design for the official flag of the country that revolution was to build. Again, according to legend, George Washington wanted a flag made of red and white stripes and thirteen six-pointed stars in a circle to represent the colonies. Betsy, however, talked him out of this by saying that five-pointed stars were much easier to cut. American mythology goes onto say that almost as soon as George Washington's boots hit the front steps, Betsy Ross set about to making that first American flag.

So, is it true, or not? Did Betsy Ross really sew the first American flag?

Well, there are some problems. In the first place, this mythic meeting of giants of American history made it into history books courtesy of the story told by...Betsy Ross. George Washington, on the other hand, never recounted any part of this story. And there's a further problem: Betsy Ross never related the full details of this story until she was dying, and then it was to her grandson William Canby, who was a mere lad of eleven at the time. Further complicating matters and lending some credence to the fact that the Ross bloodline has some procrastinators in it is that William Canby then did not publicly relate the story told him by granny Betsy for another thirty years. By the time William Canby got around to telling the story of the historical meeting between Betsy Ross and George Washington and the first American flag, almost a century had passed from when this meeting allegedly took place.

There is some written history that makes it easier to divine truth from myth, if not completely mark Betsy Ross as a teller of tall tales. A copy of Washington's itinerary from June of 1776 does place him in Philadelphia around the time this meeting with Betsy Ross supposedly took place. Unfortunately, there is no entry of a meeting with any seamstress. George Washington's diary entry also neglects to mention that he had anything to do with the designing the American flag. And as if that isn't enough, consider that the Continental Congress had never met to discuss designing of a flag. At the time the official flag was known as the Grand Union Flag and it was a kind of bastardization of the Union Jack, complete with red and white stripes. Washington was known to be okay with the general design of Grand Union Flag and had never given any indication he was interested in such a full scale redesign as legend has it.

So, did Betsy Ross really sew the first American flag? Probably not. But it is a nice legend none the less.

In total, there have been 27 revisions to the American flags because of added stars alone! The last addition to the flag was on July 4th, 1960 when the flag went from having 49 stars to 50 stars with the addition of Hawaii.

To see a full history of the flag additions, check out the related link below.

It shows the dates flow, states represented and amount of stars.

Burning the U.S. flag is legal due to rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1968, Congress imposed criminal penalties for anyone who "knowingly casts contempt upon any flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling upon it."

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that anti-desecration statutes are unconstitutional if aimed at suppressing one type of expression in the case of Texas vs Johnson.

In response to the ruling, Congress enacted The Flag protection Act of 1989, which imposed a fine and up to one year in prison for certain acts that violate the physical integrity of the flag, including mutilating, defacing, physically defiling, maintaining on the floor, or trampling on the flag.

In 1990, in the case of United States v. Eichman, the Supreme Court struck down the Flag Protection Act, ruling that the government's interest in preserving the flag as a symbol does not outweigh the individual's First Amendment right to disparage that symbol through expressive conduct.

Fold the flag in half width-wise twice. If done by two, then the blue field should be facing the bottom on the first fold. Fold up a triangle, starting at the striped end ... and repeat ... until only the end of the union is exposed. Then fold down the square into a triangle and tuck inside the folds. You can find an animation on the site linked above. first have 2 people hold it flat in the air then fold it in half 2 times long ways,then the person holding the stripes folds about 2 inches then fold it starting from the left at an angle to look like a triangle all the way 2 the stars you should have enough 2 stick the white side in the end when done it should be a triangle shape

Some people might consider that inappropriate, but there are no laws against it.

Technically that is not true. Section 8D reads that "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel." Legally there are fines and it is punishable under federal law.

A flag is defined, by law, as: "Anything "by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag."

Cars painted as flags are therefore illegal also. There are also rules of how a flag should be placed. The union side must face northward, is one example. Flying a flag upside down is still under appeal and may be legal. The case is being tried in Cost Mes, CA.

The laws relating to the flag of the United States of America are found in detail in the United States Code. Title 4, Chapter 1 pertains to the flag; Title 18, Chapter 33, Section 700 regards criminal penalties for flag desecration; Title 36, Chapter 3 pertains to patriotic customs and observances. These laws were supplemented by Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations.

Then again, burning it in protest is protected under the freedom of speech, why not wearing it?

in her house

Forty eight. The flag of the United States of America had forty eight stars from 1912 until 1959. Veteran's Day is celebrated in the United States on November 11th each year. The November 11th celebration dates back to 11:00am on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when the hostilities of World War One officially came to an end. Most of the world recognizes November 11th as "Armistice Day." In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a resolution changing "Armistice Day" to "Veterans Day" as a recognition to all veterans of all wars.