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Unity and Love of Country Celebrating Our Shared Emblems

A flag is a simple thing to look at, cloth moving through air. Yet it pulls together memory, pride, grief, and grit in a way few objects can. Anyone who has stood along a small town parade route and watched veterans carry Old Glory, or walked past a school at dawn while the custodian raises the colors, can feel it. The gesture binds strangers for a moment. Heads lift, conversations hush, a hand touches a heart. The ritual says you belong, not because you agree about everyth

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Stars, Stripes, and Stories: American Flags that Shaped a Nation

Walk a small town on a July afternoon and you can read the day by the flags. Front porches draped in bunting, a hand-painted Betsy Ross pattern over a garage, a US flag clipped to a bicycle, and now and then a Revolutionary banner rippling from a second story window. People are not only decorating, they are telling family stories, staking out values, remembering heroes, and sometimes poking at power. American flags carry layers. Some are patriotic flags in the plainest sens

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