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For Flag Day, let’s live up to our republic’s values

By Rep. Brad Wenstrup
Published June 13, 2020 9:06pm ET
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For Flag Day, let’s live up to our republic’s values
A woman reads a newspaper showing the results of the previous day's referendum in favor of rewriting the nation's constitution in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 26. Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday to vote overwhelmingly in favor of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. | (Esteban Felix/AP Photo)

The American flag was born amid a revolution.

It was stitched together by the fingers of Philadelphian seamstress Betsy Ross, legend has it, and confirmed by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, as the colonies were still besieged by British forces in the struggle for autonomy and self-determination.

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