LANCASTER – While American flags from ... teenager for the current design of the flag. Robert G. Heft designed and sewed the prototype 60 years ago for a class project at Lancaster High School.

For an American history class project during his junior year ... Heft remembers his teacher saying as he turned in the flag. Heft got a B- on his project. "I was upset," Heft says.

When an American flag becomes tattered, most people are not sure how to dispose of it properly. So Boy Scout Colton Ash made ... donated the print design on the outside of the box.