"Col. Robert McCormick, publisher of the Tribune, was such a stalwart Republican that when Rhode Island Democrats won a political battle in 1935, McCormick ordered that Rhode Island's star be cut out of the American flag that flew in the Tribune Tower lobby. But an employee pointed out that mutilating the flag was a crime punishable by a fine and jail time, and the colonel relented."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-perspec-1114-things-20101112,0,5683230.story

Are the states represented in the flag in order of entering the union?

So Delaware (I think ) is the first Star and Hawaii is the 50th star? Left to right, top to bottom?

Paul Hegge