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...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July. Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with over tones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear...
...about the same time, police blocked off Freedom Square, where a whitehaired man had been dancing to Greek music in the midst of a circle of clapping demonstrators. The police began throwing gas cannisters onto the porch of Adams A and B entries. Police chased students into the entries of Harvard buildings, a practice they had avoided earlier in the evening...
Suddenly, B-wen! Champion of the Wise Teachers, strode onto the stony front Porch of the Citadel, protected by a gleaming Suit of Armor. Blazing in large gold Letters from the great Shield slung across his shoulders was the Motto: "Self Interest is Best for the Common Interest in a Free Economy...
...Veterans Day last Tuesday the flag of our nation, the hymns of our nation, the lights on our car, the lights on our porch were all claimed for the hitherto silent majority who supposedly with unanimity back the President in his prolongation of the agony abroad through intensified Vietnamization of our policy there. It is not necessary for us who oppose this policy to argue that we, the non-silent, are the majority, although we surely have many more sympathizers among the silent than successive administrations have granted. It is, in our case, sufficient to think of ourselves...
Other demonstrators said that a tenant had complained to Hunneman about some missing planks in her back porch. Several days later, her porch and eight other porches were ripped off the building by repair...