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enter with 150 beautiful national flags is in show business, such a stirring sight although it is unlikely that the managers there love their country more than the owner of the small business, displaying just one. The Annin Flag Company produces most American flags. They have more business than they can do now. You do not have to go to Annin to buy a flag though. Flag sales are a street corner cottage industry. Furtive operatives set up shops; for them the buck means more than the banner. The color of the national flag and the numbers of stars and stripes are ordained, but there is no rule regarding dimension. There are tiny flags with sticks made in China. This grand flag is so big on a building in New York that it had to be continued to hang around the corner. This beauty hangs from the side wall of the building of fire service. And they would not want a dirty flag so they wash them. Everyone wants to be associated with the flag, for example, they have America and Yale, America and Episcopalians, America and J﹒P﹒Morgan, America and Maxell, America and the Ritz Tower. There are inevitably people who are more anxious to appear patriotic than to be patriotic. They treat a fine line between patriotism and commerce. The flag is everywhere in close proximity to a business interest. It sells shoes and does shoe repair, and sells women’s dress. The American flag invites diners to foreign restaurants — Japanese, Italian, even Afghan. There is an official flag code but it is routinely ignored. It is not to be used as a napkin, an awning or a canopy or plastered to the hood of a car. The code says the American flag is not to be used as decorative clothing. Some find it irresistibly fashionable though and other people are more amused than they. This is how the flag of Stars and Stripes is intended to be flown on the end of a pole of its own, free to wave majestically in its own free air. Ⅲ. The Patriotic Education in America All the American people take patriotism as an honor, but if a man betrays this country, it is a disgrace to them. So the patriotic education is the core of moral education. As the super power in the world, America pays great attention to their people’s education of patriotism all along. A. Main Contents of the Patriotic Education There are rich contents of the patriotic education in America, but two main aspects are mentioned here. 1. Cultivating the American Spirit The first aspect is to cultivate the American spirit. To propagate and cultivate the American spirit is a main aspect of the patriotic education in America. Most people know it clearly from the inaugural address of the presidents of the past. The American political circles attach importance to it, and Bush made a speech on TV to commemorate the first anniversary of “9•11”, he had the spunk to say nothing about Iraq, but he talked about the American spirit volubly. What is American spirit? The meaning of it has four aspects. The first is that to be an American citizen, people should have self-respect and sense of pride. America is a young nation of immigrants, which has achieved such important achievements in the past 200 years: it plays a decisive role in the political fields of the world, and a leading role in economy, science and technology. It is the most powerful capital of Americans. Some American media are hinting something for its citizens that it is a great, powerful, prosperous, democratic and free country, and it is happiness to be