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In case it’s not obvious, I enjoy flags. When I was young, I wrote to all 50 U. S. states and managed to get small flags from most of them, around 3″ by 5″. The two exceptions were Washington state that sent me a large plastic flag, around 2′ by 3′ and Ohio, which sent me a similar sized cloth flag. I later had a small Guam flag picked up by a cousin as he was on his back from Vietnam. He also gave me a regular sized South Vietnamese flag. I lost all the flags in moves over the years.
I have several 3″ by 5″ state and national flags I picked up a few years ago.
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Fascinating flags; especially Zimbabwe with its picture of modern weapon and the shape of Nepal’s flag
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Nepal’s is one of the more unusual shapes. The closest state flag design in the U. S. is Ohio which is different than Nepal’s flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ohio
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You know your flags!
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When I was young, I sent request to all 50 states for a flag. Most sent the 3″x5″ versions in cloth. Ohio, sent a version that 3’x5′. Washington sent me the most unusual. It was plastic and large like Ohio’s flag. I lost them in a move, but may rebuild my collection one day.
I had a South Vietnamese flag my cousin brought back from Vietnam in the early 1970s. It was the size that would fit on a flagpole.
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Wow did back then you can requests for free state flags?
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Yes this was around the early 1970s. Not sure you can get them free today. You can order a set of 50 in the 3″x5″ size for a reasonable price last I checked. It’s been a while, but one company included a base for the 50 flags. That was a bit pricier.
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Wow sometimes I wished I was aorund in the 70s lol
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