Reclaiming Red, White, and Blue: Can Patriotism Be Inclusive Again?
A few summers in the past, my neighbor took down his front porch flag. He had flown it quietly for years, every Memorial Day and on such a lot Fridays, no longer as a announcement of politics but as a dependancy he discovered from his father. After a heated argument on our block approximately backyard signals, he pointed out the flag immediately felt like a statement he did now not suggest to make. He folded it in moderation and put it away, as though it had been safer inte