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Reclaiming Red, White, and Blue: Can Patriotism Be Inclusive Again?

A few summers in the past, my neighbor took down his the front porch flag. He had flown it quietly for years, each and every Memorial Day and on most Fridays, now not as a declaration of politics however as a addiction he realized from his father. After a heated argument on our block about backyard symptoms, he acknowledged the flag all at once felt like a observation he did no longer mean to make. He folded it rigorously and put it away, as though it had been safer interio

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A few summers in the past, my neighbor took down his the front porch flag. He had flown it quietly for years, each and every Memorial Day and on most Fridays, now not as a declaration of politics however as a addiction he realized from his father. After a heated argument on our block about backyard symptoms, he acknowledged the flag all at once felt like a observation he did no longer mean to make. He folded it rigorously and put it away, as though it had been safer interio

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