A neatly folded flag

Friday morning I was walking past the small post-war modern townhouses down the street from us. They all have big picture windows on the street, and as I walked past one I noticed that had no curtains. I was dark inside, and all I could see was that right in front of the window, in the middle, was a neatly fold American flag on a small wooden chest. The flag was folded in the traditional triangle fashion. I thought, this is probably the home of someone who's lost someone in the war in Iraq, or possibly Afghanistan, and this is the flag that had been draped over the coffin.

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posted by Tony at 11:14 PM