Summary
A worker who seldom misses a day, McCombs can't guess how many of the flags on which she has sewn seams have fluttered over the likes of warships, air bases, battalion headquarters, marine landing sites, government and business buildings, cemeteries and from white posts on front porches across America. [...] thousands of hand-sized, Coshocton-made flags waved at Ground Zero when President Bush spoke to anxious but defiant New Yorkers and to a sympathetic world during the grim aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Broad Stripes Bright Stars
What did Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and designer of the Stars and Stripes, imagine defiance and its fluttering symbol would come to after more than 230 years? (His work on the flag, Hopkinson told Congress, merited nothing more than a "Quarter Cask of the...
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