The flag resolution of 1777 called for 13 white stars on a blue field, "representing a new" this
By Lori Updated 06/
13/2016 | 6:27 PM EDT ... On June 14th of that year, a school teacher named BJ 
Cigrand organized a group of children to observe ... alternate red and white; that 
the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.