So that’s our new flag. The thing we’ve been fighting for—thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.
ATTRIBUTION:
Lamar Trotti (1898–1952), U.S. screenwriter, Sonya Levien, and John Ford. Dr. Petry (Russell Simpson), Drums Along the Mohawk, while the settlers watch the American flag being raised, after learning that Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. George Washington (1939).
