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To: LindyBill who wrote (42547)	9/8/2002 10:19:17 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I asked my 14-year-old what he thought would be appropriate to commemorate 9/11, and he said that he would like it if we turned off the TV because it was all too much for him. This was before Laura Bush made the same suggestion, so I would like to endorse what she said. Children don't need to see all that, over and over again. Heck, I am not sure that adults do, either. Like most people, we started flying the American flag every day after 9/11, but my mother did not have a flag for her apartment and asked us to find her one, and my husband expressed a wish for a Gadsden flag, the yellow one with the rattlesnake, and the motto "Don't tread on me." It took months to find a nice American flag for my mother (amazing how long they were sold out), but we found a Gadsden flag for my husband that weekend. He's been flying it ever since. He was going to take it down on 9/11, but the next door neighbor started complaining about it, so he's resolved to fly it forever. I was pleased to see that the Navy has started to fly a cousin of the Gadsden flag, the Navy Jack, and my husband says he'll switch from the Gadsden to the Navy Jack after 9/11. Amazingly, the complaining next door neighbor is career army, who flies his own American flag all the time (it's very faded - shame). He's just very much a conformist, I guess. news.navy.mil

To: LindyBill who wrote (42547)	9/10/2002 6:07:10 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 281500

UC Berkeley's day-long tribute... The "Star Spangled Banner" is too patriotic, divisive and political, so organizers of UC Berkeley's day-long tribute to the victims and heroes of 9-11 are excluding it. "God Bless America" is doubly excluded. Not only is it patriotic, but it also mentions God, something else that is taboo next Wednesday. The Sept. 11 Day of Remembrance, sponsored by the Chancellor's office, the student body government and the Graduate Assembly, will also feature student leaders distributing white ribbons, instead of the red, white and blue ones they had originally planned. Yes, they also will be flying White Flags instead of the Red-White and Blue ones that are too patriotic.