Posted on 06/26/2014 6:51:20 AM PDT by Rusty0604
It seems the Department of Homeland Security doesn't know how many stars and stripes there are on the American flag.
A DHS press release, dated June 20, commemorated the June 17th naturalization of 15 new US citizens, noting the "15 stars and stripes" on the U.S. flag. The problem is that the American Flag doesn't have 15 stars and stripes; it has had 13 stripes since the Act of April 4, 1818, was signed by President James Monroe, and 50 stars since 1960, after Hawaii became a state the year before.
"These 15 candidates, symbolically representing the 15 stars and stripes on our Nation's flag, hailed from Australia, Canada, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Sierra Leone and South Korea," the press release said.
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Tiger Beer is Singapore, not Sierra Leone... :)
Yep...That’s a powerful potion right there!!! I miss Singapore...Nice town cut out of the jungle...
I bought so many bootleg tapes from there and in the Mid East I thought I would never have to buy anything else in the States ever again...
Cheers!!!
You may be right. It’s hard to keep track, you know, with states coming and going like they do. You can have as many states as you want when you’re the king.
Exactly. If you like your states, you can KEEP your states. Unless the king decides otherwise. :)
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