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Little Known Facts About The American Flag


• There are 64 parts of the flag: 13 stripes, 50 stars and 1 blue field for the stars.
• During manufacturing of the flag, the material left over is never able to fall on the ground, it always falls into containers.
• The ball on top of the flagpole is called a "truck". On an OFFICIAL government installation, inside the truck is a .45 caliber bullet, a .38 caliber bullet and a bullet for an M-16 rifle.
• If the "truck" falls and hits the ground, it is designed to break into 13 pieces, representing the 13 original colonies.
• At the base of each flagpole on an OFFICIAL government installation is a box buried in concrete. This box would contain 1 saber, a .38 caliber pistol and a box of matches. If the enemy should take over the last government installation, the last person to survive will defend the FLAG with the saber and the pistol and burn the FLAG with the matches so the enemy could not capture it.