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The flag of our nation: Americans have a deep-seated love and respect for Old Glory, even if they cannot always express their feelings in words.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
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The start of a baseball game, a football game, a NASCAR race, or a rodeo is predictable: crowds turn to face the American flag; men doff their hats: women put their hands on their hearts; and the "Star-Spangled Banner" is sung. And if you take your eyes from the flag for a few moments and look around, and at the same time listen. you may experience something rather profound. Whether clean-shaven or unshaven, whether yuppies or in boots and hats, whether holding children in their arms or apparently alone, Americans of all ages have tears forming in their eyes and catches in their throats as they sing and they stare at the flag. Even men, the ...
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