Cindy McCain wore jewelled pins reading "USMC" and "Navy" and a flag with a star in honor of her two sons in military service, Jimmy and Jack.

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"In light of the thing that has happened with the terrorists, we thought we would fly the U.S. flag on the big pole in honor of the dead, " says Maurice Bessinger, a South Carolina restaurateur who had taken down the Stars and Stripes from flagpoles at his restaurants last year in protest of the removal of the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse.

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With your support, when Taps is played at the the funeral of one of our servicemen or servicewomen today, Folds of Honor steps in and lays a check upon the folded American flag that is given to the family.

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