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What Is The Puerto Rican Flag?
My flag is going to be about the Puerto Rican flag. Puerto Rico is located in North America. Puerto Rico was found in 1898, when the American and Spanish had a war. The Puerto Rico flag looks like 5 white and red stripes and at the left there is blue triangle and a white star. What i’m going to be talking about what the red and white stripes are and the blue triangle with a white star means.

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So first we are going to talk about the 3 red stripes. So the 3 red stripes mean the blood for the warriors who fought for their country. So the people who made the flag wanted to show respect for the warriors who died for their country. So they thought it will be a good idea if they honored the warriors work. Also they wanted to show how brave


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