Let Our Stars and Stripes Wave Proudly
on the blue field without any specific design, some arranged The Stars and Stripes originated the stars in rows, and some in a as a result of a resolution adoptcircle. The first Navy Stars and ed by the Marine Committee of Stripes had the stars arranged the Second Continental Con- The resolution gave no instruc- in staggered formation in algress at Philadelphia on June 14, tion as to how many points the ternate rows of threes and twos 1777. The resolution read: stars should have, nor how the on a blue field. Other Stars and stars should be arranged on Stripes flags had stars arranged “Resolved, that the flag of the the blue union. Consequently, in alternate rows of four, five United States be thirteen stripes, some flags had stars scattered and four. Some stars had six By Françoise Rhodes, Editor
alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation. “
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points while others had eight. Strong evidence indicates that Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was responsible for the stars in the U.S. flag. Continued on page 6
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