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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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The perfect roundoff for Inauguration Week is to see the original Star-Spangled Banner, stunning in its size—30 feet by 34 feet—and haunting in its fragility. It is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History on Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets (which is worth a visit any time). The wool and cotton flag, nearly 200 years old, lies at a 10-degree angle of elevation behind a 35-foot floor-to-ceiling glass wall in a special enclosure designed to evoke an atmosphere of "dawn's early light" similar to the sight that inspired Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814. The first stanza of the national anthem is projected on the wall above the banner. In a week of high emotion, it gave me some quiet moments of awed contemplation of how far this great republic has come. |
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"awed contemplation" lets us act upon our best accord. Thanks for writing this.
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