The Blue Star service banner is an 8.5-by-14-inch white field with one or more blue stars sewn on a red banner. Sizes vary, but should be in proportion to the U.S. flag.

The first resolution signified the flag should be "13 stripes alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The U.S. Army ...

The act read: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new ...

Fold the flag in half lengthwise so the lower half (the striped section) is over the blue field of stars. Make sure the top edge of the flag (with the blue field and red stripe) extends 1 to 2 ...

Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, with a solid light blue field at the right, a special commission ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

But it takes a more intimate knowledge of flag trivia to know just why it is unique, Johnson said. White stars are added to the blue field of the star-spangled banner on the Fourth of July after a ...