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The American flag is nothing more then a piece of cloth decorated through the years with a varying amount of stars and stripes. ... “Fifty stars and thirteen stripes, but so much more,” quotes Dean Reynolds of ABC News. ... As children we are taught of the original thirteen colonies represented by the thirteen alternating stripes and thirteen stars, and the value of the three colors that encompass it. ... Originally the flag was constructed from bulldog cotton and designed with 13 white Stars in a circle on a blue background, and thirteen stripes; seven red alternating with six white. ... The thirteen stars in the circle represented the original thirteen colonies and within this circle no colony was greater than another. ... The current flag as we know it has evolved into a rectangular pattern of fifty stars now, symbolizing the fifty states of the United States.


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