Karissa Waddick
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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They all thought about freedom differently as they were sewing the American flag, putting themselves kind of into the American flag and their dreams for their future and the country.
I talked to one woman who recently got out of incarceration, and she said that freedom really meant a second chance to her.
This job represented freedom.
I talked to another woman who said, you know, this job and the American flag really represented being able to have crab legs on the couch for Fourth of July with her grandchildren.
And so really, you know, the differences that freedom represents to every American, but all represented under that one flag.
Yeah, we were walking around the factory with Mark Lane, the operations director, and he was telling us all about the nitty gritty details of how the flag comes together.
And we stopped and we asked him, you know, what does it mean actually, though, to you when it's completed?
And he paused.
and he reflected on a moment with his grandchildren when he was at the 9 11 memorial in new york as you said and he saw an annan flag there in a crevice next to the names of those who died on that day and he realized that somebody had put that flag there an annan flag to remember somebody that they had loved and they had lost and he really choked up at that moment and
And I think to him, that deeper purpose was really finding a way to help everybody kind of find their own meaning.
Yeah, it's really protest and dissent have been integral to America since its founding, as Sarah knows from her coverage of the No Kings protests and the protest movements across the country more recently.
But when you think of the American Revolution, you think of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, you know, Paul Revere's ride,
These were moments of extraordinary dissent against the British government by American colonists.
These individuals had enormous bravery.
They were really risking their lives for this movement and for American freedom.
And we've kind of seen that ripple throughout history, as you said, with the civil rights movement and then some of the protests we see today.
Of course, you also think of Stonewall, Stonewall Inn.
So protest has been a part of America since its founding.
When we think of Paul Revere, we think of this lone rider galloping through the night by himself, kind of calling out to colonists, the British are coming.
And in reality, Paul Revere was not alone that night by any means.
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