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Show o FLAG SYMBOLISM The flag's design was fixed r.ot by aesthetic considerations, but wholly by a desire to suggest trie territorial growth of thi country and to employ colors and features which would give some impression of the dominant a.spyratic ms of the American people the red for the wars and strife whi;h gave the country its being, the white for the praco.ful inclinatvons of all Americans, and the blue field with its white stars, as a mark of the deeply religious character of their people and th ;ir hopeful and lofty ambitions for the future of their country. Indianapolis News. |