Hey – Ho Backwoods!
Nice purty star spangled banner you have. Can you tell me the significance of the red and white stripes and the reason for the number of stars represented?
Well yes I can, and if you think the colors on the flag stand for anything you don’t know anything about it. The stars stand for the fifty states but there is no legally symbolism to the colors and shapes on the flag. However, folk theories and traditions say that the stripes refer to rays of sunlight and that the stars refer to the heavens, the highest place that a person could aim to reach. Tradition holds that George Washington proclaimed: "We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty”. The flag consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The fifty stars on the flag represent the fifty states and the thirteen stripes represent the original thirteen colonies that rebelled against the British crown and became the first states in the Union. But I have to make mine smaller on here soon, James asked me to because this one is too big and it messes with the layout of the page. I’ll have to get back to you on the rest of your crap, I’m busy on a job now.
Love ya lots, hugs and kisses
