Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power
…rns glorious and shameful, always falling short of yet also repeating and reaffirming commitment in an unparalleled set of political and ethical ideals. Or, to polish the analogy a bit, the flag, in its ceaseless variety of meanings, its simultaneous ubiquity and sacredness, acts something like a mirror, showing us the United States that we, as citizens, are. Consideration of the flag and its function, then, is not some egg-headed, ethereal academ…
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