OK people! Learn this and stop screwing it up! In this year when the USA celebrates 250 years of its Independence there will be a ton of schmaltzy Americana stuff all over the place.

The coat of arms of the USA and the flag of the USA are NOT the same thing. The coat of arms (found on the Great Seal of the U.S.) does NOT have stars on the blue field above the red & white stripes on the shield. The blue part (called a “chief”) is entirely blue with nothing on it!!! The stars appear in the crest above the eagle’s head which is a constellation of 13 stars surrounded by a glory and clouds. The flag depicts 50 stars on the blue canton. The flag is not a heraldic banner of the shield from the coat of arms. The shield is not a “vertical depiction” of the flag.

Get this correct, and don’t buy any junk that depicts the coat of arms incorrectly.