Grand Old Flag!

June 14, 1777, the American Revolution,  our forefathers choose the stars and stripes to represent our great nation on battle fronts and peace tables alike. It had 13 stripes and 13 stars representing the 13 colonies at war with England. Fighting against taxation without represention our leaders had our stars and stripes created.

The legend goes that widowed seamstress in Philadelphia named Betsy Ross met with her father-in-law,  the general comanding the Army named George Washington,  and one other asked her to create and so a flag to represent them because up until this point the flag was like the cause it depended on where you are from as to why or what our flag was. It would unify the nations soldiers.

The truth is we don't know who sewed the original flag or even what happened to it. What we do know is they were hand sewn by hand and the stripes haven't changed but the stars have multiplied. Today it is made in China by machines but then it was hand sewn with love and pride.

Now for a tale, a knitter in the Civil War sends a soldier a pair of socks. On the top the stars and stripes on the bottom a confederate flag. Soldier like yhem so much he mailed them home never to be worn.