Ask your family the following questions about the American Flag: What do the red, white and blue colors stand for? The stripes? The stars? Was Betsy Ross really the designer of the flag? How many times has the flag been redesigned?
Answers: The Continental Congress left no record to show hwy they chose red, white, and blue as the colors for the flag. However, in 1782 the Congress of the Confederation chose these same colors for the newly designed Great Seal of the United States. The resolution of the seal listed meanings for the colors.
Red: hardiness and courage
White: purity and innocence
Blue: vigilance, perseverance and justice
Stripes: the original thirteen colonies
Stars: in the beginning, Congress stated that the flag should have 13 stars to represent the 13 colonies. There is no historical basis for designating that each new state should be represented by a star, but in 1912 presidential orders added one star for each added state.
Betsy Ross she was seamstress who made flags for the American Revolution. Some historians are convinced that she was the seamstress who sewed the first American flag, but others feel that she was not. It still remains a mystery.
The flag has been re-designed at least ten times.
Talk to your family about what it means to fly the flag at half-mast. It shows a signal of mourning. The flag should be hoisted to the top for an instant before being lower to half-mast. Then repeated in the same manner before lowering. (Did you know that flying a flag upside down signals distress?)
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