The Flag

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Our flag is everywhere at the library and in the park, it is even at school. Our flag is so many places because we are proud of it. It stands for our country, the United States of America.The first American flag was made more than 200 years ago. One story says Betsy Ross made it after George Washington asked her to.The first flag had 13 stars and 13 stripes. That's because there were only 13 states when the United States first became a country. Today we have 50 stars on our flag. But our flag still has only 13 stripes to remember the first 13 states.The colors of our flag are red, white and blue. Sometimes people call our flag the "Red, White, and Blue. We've given our flag a nickname. We have other nicknames for our flag like Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, and Star-Spangled Banner.

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