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...Obama for comments that the rest of America, outside the Beltway, knows to be essentially truthful. Why else would Obama's poll numbers have remained strong despite the fury and umbrage of those in Washington most sheltered from what the rest of the country is going through? Maybe lapel flag pins are the only story they've come to understand. Jay H. Abrams, Boca Raton...
...photo" with a tree [April 28]. I work in an environmental-protection field and have a degree in biology. You may mean well, but your judgment leaves a bit to be desired. Please leave the ecological subjects in the realm of science and the patriotic war and flag symbols in theirs. Mark Ronning, Fergus Falls, Minnesota...
...Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi was a sign of victory for the U.S. military in a hard-fought battle. Our country lost more than 400,000 soldiers in World War II. If global warming ever causes that many deaths, then you can start Photoshopping pictures. Meredith Lea, Bloomington, Illinois...
...long wait. On May 1, Marijan Ilincic, a part-time judo instructor and chairman of the Association of the Descendants of the Serbian Fighters from the 1912-20 Thessaloniki Front, convened a small group of war veterans near a NATO post in Mitrovica and set fire to a U.S. flag. "Your country recognized Kosovo," Ilincic growled at a TIME reporter, whom he assumed to be an American. "You're not welcome here...
...that, for a couple of hours, let us dream while we're awake. And it's not the worst idea to have stories that both address our intimate relationship with machines and allow us to feel good about the connection. In fact, it's downright American--not in the flag-lapel-pin sense but in the innocent summoning of the country's old virtues...