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Respect or Reassessment? Is Questioning Family Flag Traditions Encouraged More Than Honoring Them?
Every September I watch a new wave of kindergartners stare up at the American flag, tiny right hands hovering over tiny hearts, eyes unsure on the first Pledge.…
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Dawn breaks, the birds stir, and there is a hush that lives in the breath before sunlight. I have raised the Stars and Stripes in fog, in desert heat, and in th…
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Schools are wherein we instruct facts, however they may be additionally in which we rehearse the way to live mutually. That is why a straight forward piece of c…
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Walk into ten public faculties and you'll see ten diverse relationships with the flag. In one, the Stars and Stripes hangs behind a whiteboard, a bit dwindled, …
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The first time I watched a flag start a fight, it wasn’t the Stars and Stripes. It was a small sticker on a laptop in a high school library, a striped square in…
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A few years ago I sat with a principal and a soccer coach in a small Midwestern town, puzzling through a problem that sounded simple and turned complex fast. A …
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The first flag I ever raised on my own went up in a dry Wyoming wind that turned the rope into a humming string. It was barely past sunrise. The sky was that mi…
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I have crossed the country enough times to know that the flag shows up where you least expect it. It rides behind a rusted motorcycle somewhere outside Moab, sn…
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