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Shielding the Flag...
...neglect of the flag, said Diefenbach in a letter to Vice Mayor Sheila T. Russell, was particularly offensive "in a city of a state which prides itself as a source of American tradition...
Diefenbach, a former Navy and Foreign Service officer, said in an interview yesterday, "I have never been in a place where an official flag has been in such a state...
Diefenbach contacted City Hall to request that the flag be properly maintained. The flag was replaced, but Diefenbach said in a letter to Russell that he has bad to petition the city on several occasions since then...
Russell said it is likely that the Fire Department or the Department of Public Works will be assigned the responsibility of overseeing the display of the flag...