Desecrating the American Flag Doesn’t Make You More Patriotic
We can’t have a national conversation semaphore
7 min readFeb 1, 2021
At first glance, I thought my eyes were playing tricks, so I called to my dog, Pepper, and made my way down the block. Winter had arrived for real here on the Southern Delaware/Maryland border, and I pulled up the collar of my robe against the wind.