Dy General ANTHONY C. McAULIFFE This World War 11 general uas faced with an order to haul down the American flag uhen the Germans demanded the surrender of Bastogne on December 23, 1944. His earned him lasting reply fame and is How included in Bartlett's ' Familiar Quotations." At present he is cicepresident and director of American Csanamid Company. one-wor- d T fly Old Glory When T" mTTT rim mn innii imiiiibupjmhiiiji ofalsT' mnHuipniiiij.ni uidjiwiimiim. at your house I was a boy proving up we lied in a large brick house. Like een house on the street, it had a flagstaff set in an iron clamp just under the sill of the center window on the top floor. On the mornings of certain holidays. before he came down to breakfast, my father would run the flag up. Other fathers on the street did the same, and when we came out to play neer any school on a flag flew from almost every house. those days In winter or late fall when the trees were bare, the flags fairly shone, as if freshly painted. In summer they would be dappled with shade, the colors muted but reassuringly familiar behind the curtain of foliage. We were a little more boisterous and brave on those days. Those of us who owned bicycles wove ribbons of colored crepe paper through the spokes so that when we rode along they would turn into red, white and blue cartwheels. Later in the day, if the weather was good, there was a picnic, or at least a walk in the park. And there were speeches. We listened and suspected they were important, even if we didn't fully understand them. But there were also the flags, and we,, knew what they meant. Many of the stories we read in school had to do with the flag, and so did the compositions we laboriously wrote. It is hard to say exactly how we felt about it. Usually, we spelled i with a capital "F. One thing was clear and simContinued on page 9 ple: the Flag belonged to us and three-stor- y " A flag ) is not created by rhetoric but by the living experiences of people" igjnnjujui.j,