The Very American Tale of Why the Country Still Believes a Decades-Old Lie About the U.S. Flag —...

That was a great story. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting read. Reminds me of the movie Hidalgo. Supposedly Frank Hopkins who was supposedly an endurance horse racer. There are no pictures of Frank Hopkins on a horse. The “ ring of fire race never occurred and would be impossible and the Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show has no record of Hopkins.

This is the story I've always heard about the design...Heft designed the fifty-star United States flag. Stanley Pratt, Heft's teacher at Lancaster High School, asked his students to design a flag for the admittance of Hawaii and Alaska as states in the United States. Heft chose to arrange the fifty white stars on a blue background in alternating horizontal rows.