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Waiving the Flag

About a half hour into our vigil, my very inspired husband went to retrieve his flag from the car window, ran out into the middle of Olympic and started waving it frantically, determined that everybody should see; he looked less like a patriot than the guy at the finish line of a drag race. Those of us on the corner with our candle stubs laughed in spite of ourselves, in spite of everything, and went on giving each other staggered lights, until the flag grew invisible in the darkness, and there was nothing left to burn.

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