Word: parkerisms
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...flag] every day. Until now, I’ve not said anything about the display, given the terrible horror of September 11th—and what I take to be your sense of patriotism in wanting to display the flag,” wrote Richard J. Parker, adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, to three of the flag-hangers. “But it’s now also nearly six months since that defining moment, and in that time apparently no one else has thought to tell you what is so deeply embarrassing...
...Parker went on to outline a detailed list of violations of flag-hanging protocol, including hanging the flag in the wrong direction, not taking it down at night and allowing it to touch the ground and become soiled. According to Parker’s e-mail, he had to stop and pick up the flag on numerous occasions when it had partially fallen on the ground...
...yourselves and your country a disservice by not addressing these matters,” Parker wrote. “I’m only sorry I’m apparently the first to raise them with you in the nearly six months since you put it up.” He closed his e-mail by letting the students know that he was a “sixties college graduate” and had “sharply dissented from the Vietnam War,” but also had a “senior year roommate who went...
...Parker is still not satisfied. “Frankly, I’m not aware what else they’ve done to show their support for the United States since September 11th,” he writes in an e-mail. “And now six months later, I find the hanging of a large flag off the side of a building by itself to signify less and less anything stirring about one’s patriotism...
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