"Muh" flag "muh" flag

[Malice]

Funny how al the American "patriots" are so offended by everything associated with the American flag. Yet 99% of all flags within the United States are made in China or Asia. So much patriotism towards a "magical" cloth made by foreign nations. The sacred fabric you worship is made by a 10 year old in a sweat shop. "MUH" flag................

 

[MindWars]

What do you expect when you elect Presidents of the past who sold us out to CHINA. try again.

 

[BlackSand]

Kind of makes you wonder why Americans cannot figure out how to make the flags people want to buy ...

 

[Marion Morrison]

Betsy Ross figured out a way, I don't think it was importing.

 

[MindWars]

US Military Bans 'Made In China' American Flags

Whether any of it went through I dunno, did't look.

 

[WillowTree]

Funny how al the American "patriots" are so offended by everything associated with the American flag. Yet 99% of all flags within the United States are made in China or Asia. So much patriotism towards a "magical" cloth made by foreign nations. The sacred fabric you worship is made by a 10 year old in a sweat shop. "MUH" flag................

WDYGFY?

 

[BlackSand]

Betsy Ross figured out a way, I don't think it was importing.

That's obviously not the flags the majority of people want to buy ...
Plus ... Betsy Ross was a government contractor ... And their contract was for "as many as you can make".

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[SassyIrishLass]

Buy from these patriots. US made American flags from Annin & Co...been in business since 1847

Flag Store USA : Buy American Made Flags Online

 

[OldLady]

Lots of tiny, tiny stitches in that flag. All her friends and neighbors helped her get it finished on time. It was so big she had to spread it on the floor of the barn, is what I heard.

 

[OldLady]

Funny how al the American "patriots" are so offended by everything associated with the American flag. Yet 99% of all flags within the United States are made in China or Asia. So much patriotism towards a "magical" cloth made by foreign nations. The sacred fabric you worship is made by a 10 year old in a sweat shop. "MUH" flag................

WDYGFY?

WOFGLYMN?

 

[BlackSand]

Lots of tiny, tiny stitches in that flag. All her friends and neighbors helped her get it finished on time. It was so big she had to spread it on the floor of the barn, is what I heard.

This is from the Canby paper ... Her only surviving grandson, William Canby.


"Sitting sewing in her shop one day with her girls around her, several gentlemen entered. She recognized one of these as the uncle of her deceased husband, Col. GEORGE ROSS, a delegate from Pennsylvania to Congress. She also knew the handsome form and features of the dignified, yet graceful and polite Commander in Chief, who, while he was yet COLONEL WASHINGTON had visited her shop both professionally and socially many times, (a friendship caused by her connection with the Ross family). They announced themselves as a committee of congress, and stated that they had been appointed to prepare a flag, and asked her if she thought she could make one, to which she replied, with her usual modesty and self reliance, that "she did not know but she could try; she had never made one but if the pattern were shown to her she had not doubt of her ability to do it." The committee were shown into her back parlor, the room back of the shop, and Col. Ross produced a drawing, roughly made, of the proposed flag. It was defective to the clever eye of Mrs. Ross and unsymmetrical, and she offered suggestions which Washington and the committee readily approved.

What all these suggestions were we cannot definitely determine, but they were of sufficient importance to involve an alteration and re-drawing of the design, which was then and there done by Colonel (General) George Washington, in pencil, in her back parlor. One of the alterations had reference to the shape of the stars. In the drawing they were made with six points.

Mrs. Ross at once said that this was wrong; the stars should be five pointed; they were aware of that, but thought there would be some difficulty in making a five pointed star. "Nothing easier" was her prompt reply and folding a piece of paper in the proper manner, with one clip of her ready scissors she quickly displayed to their astonished vision the five-pointed star; which accordingly took its place in the national standard. Colonel (General) Washington was the active one in making the design, the others having little or nothing to do with it. When it was completed, it was given to William Barrett, painter, to paint. ...

The gentleman drew out of a chest an old ship's color, which he loaned her to show her how the sewing was done, and also the drawing painted by Barrett. Other designs had been prepared by the committee and one or two of them were placed in the hands of other seamstresses to be made. Betsy Ross went diligently to work upon her flag, carefully examining the peculiar stitch in the old ship's color, which had been given her as a specimen, and recognizing, with the eye of a good mechanic, its important characteristics, strength and elasticity.

The flag was soon finished, and Betsy returned it, the first 'Star Spangled Banner' that ever floated upon the breeze, to her employer. It was run up to the peak of one of his ships lying at the wharf, and received the unanimous approval of the committee and of a little group of bystanders looking on, and the same day was carried into the State House and laid before Congress, with a report from the committee.

The next day Col. Ross called upon Betsy, and informed her that her work had been approved and her flag adopted; and he now requested her to turn her whole attention to the manufacture of flags, and gave her an unlimited order for as many as she could make. ...

Ross was now effectively set up in the business of flag and color making for the government; through all her after life, which was a long, useful and eventful one, she "never knew what it was," to use her own expression, "to want employment," this business (flag-making for the government) remaining with her and in her family for many years."

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[Mr Natural]

Kind of makes you wonder why Americans cannot figure out how to make the flags people want to buy ...

We can but then the cheapskates wouldn't buy them because they cost too much.

 

[fncceo]

The sacred fabric you worship is made by a 10 year old in a sweat shop

Says the hipster with an iPhone ...

 

[BlackSand]

Kind of makes you wonder why Americans cannot figure out how to make the flags people want to buy ...

We can but then the cheapskates wouldn't buy them because they cost too much.

So ... In other words ... You can't produce the flags people are willing to buy ... You can always blame the people ...

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[WillowTree]

Funny how al the American "patriots" are so offended by everything associated with the American flag. Yet 99% of all flags within the United States are made in China or Asia. So much patriotism towards a "magical" cloth made by foreign nations. The sacred fabric you worship is made by a 10 year old in a sweat shop. "MUH" flag................

WDYGFY?

WOFGLYMN?

BYAITB

 

[Marion Morrison]

There's, ok several, too many acronyms in this thread for me.

 

[Camp]

Kind of makes you wonder why Americans cannot figure out how to make the flags people want to buy ...

We can but then the cheapskates wouldn't buy them because they cost too much.

So ... In other words ... You can't produce the flags people are willing to buy ... You can always blame the people ...

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Valley Forge Flag has been making high quality American Flags for over 100 years. There are other American flag companies producing made in the USA flags with long histories. Americans know how to make them and people buy them. IMO Valley Forge makes the best quality flag money can buy.

 

[OldLady]

Funny how al the American "patriots" are so offended by everything associated with the American flag. Yet 99% of all flags within the United States are made in China or Asia. So much patriotism towards a "magical" cloth made by foreign nations. The sacred fabric you worship is made by a 10 year old in a sweat shop. "MUH" flag................

WDYGFY?

WOFGLYMN?

BYAITB

SYS!

 

[OldLady]

There's, ok several, too many acronyms in this thread for me.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm making mine up.

 

[OldLady]

Lots of tiny, tiny stitches in that flag. All her friends and neighbors helped her get it finished on time. It was so big she had to spread it on the floor of the barn, is what I heard.

Maybe I'm thinking of the 1812 Star Spangled Banner. Anyway, it was what her sister told me.