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Raising the Flag Abroad: Do We Remember What It Really Cost?
The first time I stood in a foreign cemetery full of American useless, the wind did most of the conversing. It went row to row, crosses and Stars of David in perfect traces, the grass minimize to a stubborn exactness. In that situation, speech sounds smaller than it need to, which is a part of the factor. The silence is a ledger. Every neat stone is an entry, with the cost paid in full. We are immediate now to argue what the flag will have to suggest, to debate whether t