The American Flag is the greatest and most enduring symbol of the United States of America. Representing both America and Americans, home and abroad, it connects America’s past with its present and is the one entity that binds all Americans together. United by their flag they are otherwise a melting pot of disparate identities, histories and concerns. The flag has been a constant that has flown over a revolutionary war, a civil war, imperial wars and more recently wars of freedom for others. The Stars & Stripes is perhaps the most recognised symbol on this planet. To some it now represents oppression, but to others it is, in Lincoln’s words; ‘the last, best hope of earth’. There is huge diversity in what the flag and to be an American means. There is no single American reality. The flag symbolises each person, past and present, as an individual, a micro fibre in a thread of their flag, their country. ../../inner_states-ALL_interviews.html
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