Stripes

by Revolutionjack

America was originally just 13 colonies. Creation of the Union drabble.

49. Stripes

Based on a prompt from a 100 Themes Challenge I'm trying to do.

Disclaimer: If I owned Axis Powers Hetalia, it'd be a lot slashier, Canada would be more than an afterthought and I'd know Japanese. As none of these things are true, I don't own, so don't sue.

The American Flag has 13 stripes. Each represents one of the thirteen original colonies that rebelled against England for their independence. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. And though not every person agreed with rebelling against England, and those that did, may not all have had the same reasons, but they had banded together despite their differences to fight a war that the numbers said they had no chance of winning. And they fought it anyway, and against all odds they won. And that was what had created a union, a country that valued freedom and independence above all else, out of a block of divided, individual, autonomous states.