The Star-Spangled Banner
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Name
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The Star-Spangled Banner.pdf
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Speaker
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Rt. Wor. Ray Soltis
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Presented
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Grand Lodge Committee on Masonic Education
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Date Presented
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05/01/2023
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Category
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History
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Keywords
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American History
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Spreading
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213
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Pages
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Summary
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The Grand Lodge Committee on Masonic Education is collecting presentations to disseminate to the Brethren of Virginia. The Regional Provost for Region 10 has started a Regional Provost Newsletter to be sent to each Lodge. This short paper discusses the American flag that was flown at Fort McHenry, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write, "The Star-Spangled Banner". This flag was larger than other flags, as it had fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, one for each state. The next version of the flag went back to thirteen stripes for the original colonies, as it became obvious a new stripe for each state would make the flag too large.