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Read these paragraphs from "Betsy Ross". "It was in that environment, in 1870, that Betsy Claypoole's grandson William Canby presented the family tale to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At the time several claims on the first flag were surfacing, ranging from other Philadelphia seamstresses to a New Hampshire quilting bee said to have fashioned the banner out of cut-up gowns "Most such stories however wishfully sourced, expressed a national desire for symbols of female Revolutionary patriotism, of women materially supporting their fighting men and (just perhaps) showing George Washington a better way to make a star." What might the Sacagawea legend express a "desire" for? Support your answer with evidence from one or both texts

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