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...simmering unease has erupted into one mini-scandal in Marietta. Jim and Sylvi Caporale, owners of the American Flags & Poles store on Front Street, unfurled a three-story flag down the front of their building on Sept. 11. Jim remembered learning that, after Lincoln's assassination, people had placed black sashes across their flags. So the next day he added a black banner. "I felt really strong about emphasizing my grief," explains Caporale, a big, booming man who used to be a New York State police officer...
Caporale went back to his store and took all the flags down from the front. "I felt like I didn't have a friend in the world. I cried for hours," he says. That night, strangers began to call the Caporale house. World War II vets reassured Caporale, he says, that he could burn the flag if he wanted to; that was what they had fought...
...next day, Caporale reopened the store and put the flag back up. This time, he draped the black sash over the door. The police chief denies Caporale's version of events; he claims the detective went into the store as a "veteran," not an officer. He insists no one threatened to arrest Caporale for the sash, only for becoming belligerent. All that is certain is that two men were desperate to take a stand, any stand...
Because of considerations like these, the left is divided. Todd Gitlin, a New York University professor of sociology, was once president of Students for a Democratic Society, the ideological cyclotron of '60s campus radicalism. Last week an American flag was hanging from the balcony of his Greenwich Village apartment. Gitlin wonders now whether an effective response to terrorism may require the judicious use of force and whether the left's reflexive condemnation of U.S. military action is blind to the new realities. "I have a disposition against massive retaliation, but I think nations have a right of self-defense...
...China Airlines, each estimate a 15% drop in revenue for September; similar results are likely for all the other airlines. Insurance providers, meanwhile, are demanding higher premiums and placing low limits on war and terrorism coverage. As a result, governments have had to funnel cash to their flag carriers to keep them in the air. Seoul is letting Korean Air and Asiana Airlines pass on a $1.25 per passenger war-risk premium and has given the two carriers $2.5 million and $1.4 million, respectively, in aid and tax cuts. Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific was nearly grounded before the airline...