Flag Day 2013: 9 Things You Never Knew About the American Flag
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“A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.”
– George Washington, January 8, 1790, First State of the Union Address