Analysis
The Lasting Meaning of Flying a Flag for Veterans, Heritage, and Country
A flag is a simple thing, just cloth, stitching, color, shape. Yet almost everyone knows that it carries more weight than the materials used to make it. You can see it in the way people straighten their backs during the national anthem, or how a veteran pauses when passing a memorial, or how a family carefully folds a worn flag that flew over a porch for years. Flying a flag is not decoration in the usual sense. It is public memory. That is especially true when the flag
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