They were allowed to march holding flags and singing folk songs for a half an hour, and then returned to their bullet-proof buses.

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Some 200, 000 Germans gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in a show of sympathy, some holding small American flags, others holding little figurines of doves -- the symbol of peace.

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Small children holding American flags.

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Eurovision fever had also spread to Copenhagen airport, where I was greeted in the arrivals lounge by scores of people holding and waving flags for various countries.

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There are between 30 and 40 of them very close to where I am, holding up white flags just hoping that some of this firing, which has been intense for periods, might subside.

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Many are holding and waving their little American flags.

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Plenty of flags, blue drapes and earnest people holding tiny models of spacecraft.

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