"We are honored to have here tonight in the heart of our nation's capital one of the very first American flags ever to exist dating back to 1777 it bears the 13 stars and 13 stripes of the 13 states that declared independence on the 4th of July There it is This was the flag that flew victorious at Saratoga And these are the real deals too. These are the real The real flags these are flags that have seen a lot These were the stars and stripes that flew triumphant when the British waved the white flag of surrender At Yorktown that was a big surrender. Nobody thought that was possible"