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This is something that as a Brit confuses me - it's a flag. It's a SYMBOL.
Whether you love or merely tolerate the thing it's a symbol OF (i.e. your great nation) the flag is not the nation.
I know from observation that most Americans I've met and talked to about this are passionate about the flag itself as an object of veneration - but I don't understand it at a visceral level.
Can anyone explain to me WHY the flag matters so much in itself - not what it stands for, but the actual physical cloth?
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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