As I set out my U. S. flag this morning, I realized that the several flags flapping up and down my street potentially represent very different sets of meanings for those displaying the flags. The last time I realized this was on the Martin Luther King holiday (a.k.a. Civil Rights Day) in January, which is one of the official flag days in the U.S. when I noticed that flags were not flying at the houses of two neighbors. I noticed because those neighbors fly the flag every other day of the year.

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