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Originally Posted by doniston
HI Sam, long see no time. Happy New Year,
Tell me, where did you get that flag and what does it mean??? (or maybe "why")
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Happy New Year to you too Doniston. The Civil Flag was intended for peacetime usage but it was more expensive than the military flag that we use now because the military was ordering this flag
so the price was more affordable to civilians. So they bought it and the civil flag slowly disappeared.
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The first authorization of a U.S. flag came about on June 14th, 1777, when Congress directed that a U.S. flag consist of 13 stripes, alternating red and white; that a union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation. Through usage, horizontal stripes were adopted for use over military posts and vertical stripes adopted for use over civilian posts. Most flag purchase orders were for the military version by the Federal government. Out paced by military purchases, civil flag orders were almost non-existent as the cost was far more than most Americans could afford. Sightings of the Civilian Flag were rarely seen until U.S. Customs adopted the Civil Flag in it's enforcement of tax collection and inspection in ports as opposed to acts of war against merchant ships.
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