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Flying A Flag to Honor History: Would George Washington Recognize Today’s America?

I once stood in a small Virginia metropolis on a damp July morning, watching a procession of veterans and teenagers carrying a dwindled flag down Main Street. The flagmaker's label, stitched in 1917, peeked from a torn seam. People cheered, however the sound had the equal low tenderness I pay attention while other people communicate about loss: reverent, uncertain. You may want to believe a verbal exchange stretching returned two centuries, a question soaring over the parad