Word: flagging
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...Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages, the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
...honor those long-dead national heroes. I did not participate in a parade, even though I did as a child. I did not pledge allegiance to the flag they preserved, despite the fact that I did so every day in high school. If I kept a diary, I probably would not have registered the day's importance, not even as an aside. Instead, I watched a movie, stayed at lunch a little longer, practiced for a house pool tournament and whiled away the hours until dinner...
...honor those long-dead national heroes. I did not participate in a parade, even though I did as a child. I did not pledge allegiance to the flag they preserved, despite the fact that I did so every day in high school. If I kept a diary, I probably would not have registered the day's importance, not even as an aside. Instead, I watched a movie, stayed at lunch a little longer, practiced for a house pool tournament and whiled away the hours until dinner...
...American wrestlers win friends in the streets of Tehran, their presence appears to be infuriating Iran's conservatives. When the Stars and Stripes drew enthusiastic cheers at the opening ceremony of an international wrestling tourney, a conservative cleric urged parliament to reject the presence of the flag "which we used to trample underfoot only last year," and led legislators in the ritual chant of "Death to America...
Then the White House did a very wise thing: it went silent. Sources dried up, officials hunkered down; the denial was out, the policy flag had been squarely planted and the White House decided simply not to respond to any but the most damaging questions. As a senior Republican official said, "The smartest thing they've done all week is shut up." In fact, Clinton and Gore left town altogether, heading to the heartland to sell the previous night's message...