The flag, made up of 50 stars and 13 stripes since 1960, has been flown on battlefields, Olympic podiums and even on the moon. Its bold red, white and blue color scheme has become synonymous ...

the Philadelphia Congress resolved that “. . . the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new ...

On June 14 of that year, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution that says: Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be ...