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October 21, 2025

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Timothy Connor
Oct 21, 2025
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A postscript on “No Kings” day, and author Leah Sottile’s voice for the Rose City

For starters, I’ll confess I’ve been ambivalent, for many years, about flying stars & stripes.

My father was not ambivalent. He always had a flag to fly on the 4th, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, etc., and would usually get up early to place it in a fixed bracket on his front …

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