Should Anyone Feel Uncomfortable Seeing the American Flag in America?
A few summers ago, a small coffee shop in a midwestern town quietly took down the American flag that hung in its front window. The owner had put it up on Memorial Day, kept it for the Fourth, and left it as a year-round nod to neighbors who served. Then a regular customer mentioned that the flag made another customer nervous. Not angry, not threatened, just uneasy. The owner, tired of online scuffles and allergic to drama, removed it. He wanted coffee to be a refuge, not a