Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f94Gev019632; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:40:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:40:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <155.2033495.28edea65@aol.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1667] Re: flag waving X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 748 Lines: 14 Flag waving is a beloved ritual. I read every morning little memorial statements with pictures in the NYTimes about the people who died. Obviously some reporter talked to friends and family of everyone judged dead and put together these little statements. I think that's what the flag waving is about, these were beloved Americans (even if they were foreign nationals!). They died here. I am ferociously critical of jingoist statements, as some of you who read the NLA listserv may know, yet I have had a little flag in a flag holder at my front door for years. I'm allowed. And yes, I have seen the picture of a white guy using the flag as a spear running at a black guy in front of the Bsotn City Hall back in the 1970's. Andrea
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