Saturday, June 25, 2016

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Charles Street, the principal thoroughfare on Boston's Beacon Hill, is a comfortable street bordered by four-story brink buildings with apartments above antique stores and other shops on the ground level. At one time on one block American flags regularly hung over the entrances to the United States Post Office and the liquor store. Then the Post Office stopped displaying the flag, and on September 11, 2001, the liquor store flag flew alone. Two weeks later seventeen flags flew on this block, in addition to a huge Stars and Stripes suspended across the street a short distance away. With their country under attack, Charles Street denizens rediscovered their nation and identified themselves with it. 

- From Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington

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