Jack of Harts

Today is Flag Day, the commemoration of the adoption of the flag of the United States of America on June 14, 1777, by the Second Continental Congress. They were standing up against a tyrannical government and needed a new flag of their own. So they passed a resolution of a new flag with thirteen stripes and thirteen stars on a blue field, one for each of the Colonies. One of the most famous versions of that is the Betsy Ross Flag, with the thirteen stars in a circle. We have a few more stars now, but the same number of stripes to remember the original thirteen States that risked everything to form the nation we live in now.