THE AMERICAN FLAG
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Has thirteen red and white stripes for the thirteen original colonies and one
white star for each of the fifty
states
on a field of blue.
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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
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When he saw the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry, Francis Scott
Key, prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 wrote what became our
national anthem.
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Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
I pledge
allegiance
to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic
for which it stands, one
Nation
under God, indivisble, with liberty and justice for all.
PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish the
Constitution
for the United States of America.
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