The American flag wasn’t at all times revered as it’s in the present day. At the start, it was an afterthought
PHILADELPHIA — In the bed room of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of the place the upholsterer labored on her most well-known fee, a protracted flag with a circle of 13 stars hangs over a Chippendale facet chair and extends throughout the ground. Over the weeks in 1776 wanted to finish the mission, Ross would have possible knelt on the flag, stood on it and handled it extra like an on a regular basis banner - not with the sort of reverence we’d anticipate in the present day.
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