My Favorite Flag: The True Centennial Banner

37-star silk flag, July 4, 1867 to July 3, 1877.Semiquincentennial. Try saying it three times fast—I can’t, so I’ll stick with “250th anniversary.” As we celebrate our semi… (well, you know the word), we recall that one of the most enduring symbols of our nation is our flag, that beautiful, bold, red, white, and blue banner that flies from countless flagpoles across the country.My earliest memory of our nation’s flag dates back to the mid-1960s, when I