Nike Move Threatens American Icon, July 3, 2019

A girl I went to elementary school with was somehow related to Betsy Ross. It was a big, big deal. At least to me.

Betsy Ross made the first American flag, we were taught in school — the flag that adorned Apollo rockets into space, the flag that had just been planted on the moon.

We pledged allegiance to Ross’ flag each morning, the 50-star variety. We removed our caps and sang to it before baseball games. Police officers saluted when it passed at local parades. Sometimes they cried as it did. And there, at the fourth-grade art table next to me, sat a beautiful, blushing girl named Wendy who’s great-, great-, great- grand-something had created its original, or so the legend goes — the red- white-and-blue standard with a circle of 13 stars.

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