I was 12 and I saw adults crying with joy and relief. Then I saw it: an oily American flag on the stern of an old American tanker. I had not seen an American flag flying freely for at least two years.
she was 95 years old and reportedly confined to bed. Hardly someone who’d grab a fallen flag and taunt passing Rebels. A woman in her 30s named Mary Quantrill did wave an American flag from her ...