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Dwight and Liz Morris on Handing Down the Family Business
Every disagreement they had came down to the same two lines. “I want you to show me,” Liz would say. “No,” her dad would answer. “You just need to do...
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The Black and White Flag: Dr. Lance Armstrong on the POW/MIA Mission
You’ve seen the flag. Black and white, a man’s silhouette, a guard tower, and the words You Are Not Forgotten. It flies beneath the Stars and Stripes at post offices and...
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The Town Where Independence Got Cold Feet
Most stories about America’s founding point to two cities. Boston, where the tea went into the harbor. Philadelphia, where the men signed their names. Freedom and Glory sits a long...
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Dwight and Liz Morris on Handing Down the Family Business
Every disagreement they had came down to the same two lines. “I want you to show me,” Liz would say. “No,” her dad would answer. “You just need to do...
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The Black and White Flag: Dr. Lance Armstrong on the POW/MIA Mission
You’ve seen the flag. Black and white, a man’s silhouette, a guard tower, and the words You Are Not Forgotten. It flies beneath the Stars and Stripes at post offices and...
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The Town Where Independence Got Cold Feet
Most stories about America’s founding point to two cities. Boston, where the tea went into the harbor. Philadelphia, where the men signed their names. Freedom and Glory sits a long...
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The Contract They Never Look At
Watco still works with the very first customer it ever landed, a paper mill in Louisiana, on a contract it signed in 1983. The strange part is that the mill...
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The Flag Danny Carried
Holly Higgins’s son Danny came home from his first deployment to Iraq on a sunny September afternoon. When he walked through the door, Holly almost didn’t recognize him. He looked...
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Ten Years, One Flagpole, and a Town That Notices
A funeral home in Redfield, South Dakota has spent ten years flying flags for veterans, first responders, and organ donors. Kelly Hyke shares why he started, and what he’d tell...
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Glory Isn't Given: A UNC Field Hockey Story
Last summer, three UNC field hockey players appeared in our signature story video. In that video, I share a lesson I learned when I played for the Tar Heels years...
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How Two Friends Built a Gig Economy App That Pays Workers Fairly
Some of the best ideas start with a bad round of golf and one too many drinks. Tom Livolsi was having a rough front nine at McGregor Downs Country Club...
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A Million Stories: A Flag's Life
Chief Phillip Nasseri started as a volunteer firefighter a long time ago, and he’ll tell you he never really planned to stop. He leads the team at the Orange County...
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One Text Message, 5,000 Bags of Food, and a Whole Lot of Love
In December 2015, a parent walked into Turquoise LeJeune Parker’s classroom at Lakewood Elementary in Durham, North Carolina, and asked a simple question: Do you know anywhere I can get...
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What Gets Passed On: How Scouts Come Together to Honor Their Veterans
For a lot of the Scouts who show up at Guilford Memorial Park on the Saturday before Veterans Day, it’s their first time in a cemetery. Not their first time...
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One Flag. A Million Stories: How Six Graves Became 3,500
Bruce Dillon didn’t set out to build anything. He just had his dad’s World War II Jeep, a few American flags, and five or six friends buried at Guilford Memorial...
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