The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

However, there was a brief period in which the American flag bore 15 stripes. The Smithsonian reports that the Act of January 13, 1794, allowed for 15 stripes and 15 stars after May 1795.

Using the flag in protest is quintessentially American; the flag cannot be degraded as its status as a potent symbol is being acknowledged. Those smarty-pants Yippies understood that.

WASHINGTON — One of the capital’s newest curiosities is an American flag bearing 51 stars rather than the regulation 50. The unusual take on the Stars and Stripes went up across Lafayet… ...

1945: U.S. Marines raise the American flag over Iwo Jima The view of members of the United States Marine Corps 5th Division as they raised an American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of ...

The American flag is once again flying at a Franklin Township corner where it was replaced over the weekend by a giant banner for former President Donald Trump. A Dispatch reader messaged a photo ...