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Teaching Children Military History Through Flags, Service, and National Pride
Children usually notice symbols before they understand institutions. A flag on a porch, a folded banner in a display case, a service cap on a shelf, a photograph of a great-grandfather in uniform, those details catch a young eye long before a textbook does. That is often where military history starts at home, not with a lecture, but with a question. Why does that flag have stars in a circle? Why does Grandpa say he was in the Navy and not the Army? What branch flew plane
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