Showing posts with label United States Flag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States Flag. Show all posts

September 6, 2012

America the Beautiful

The United States of America is our home country and the beginning of our Around the World Adventures. Here is a map of the United States showing our fifty states:

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Betsy Ross designed a beautiful flag for our nation. Her flag had thirteen stars - one for each of the colonies. It looked like this:
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Today our flag has the stars arranged in rows. There is a star for each state. Our flag still has thirteen stripes symbolizing the original thirteen colonies.
 
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