The Northern Ireland Conservative Party has previously expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".

BBC: Northern Ireland

Others, such as the Northern Ireland Conservative Party, have expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".

BBC: Northern Ireland

So rather than being a formidable barrage, Mr Brown's double declaration of war looks instead like a white flag: an admission that he urgently needs to shore up Labour's core vote.

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These men and women -- doctors, medics and nurses, many of them just 20 or 21 years old -- have saved the lives of numerous servicemen and women who in any previous war may have come home in flag-draped coffins.

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Consider just two examples: the early American "Dont Tread on Me" flag and WWII Office of War Information posters.

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Their float will have singers, flag bearers and representatives from every war since World War II - as well as photographs of members who were too frail to make the trip.

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In the small town near the depot, a massive flag in a park across from the local war memorial waved at half-staff.

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Included with it is a small silk flag with 46 stars, thought to have been donated by Morey during World War I, and a gold cross Littrell added.

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If he goes to war, people will support him (indeed, the first effect will be a huge rally round the flag).

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Moreover, the war-priming effects of attractive women were greater than with other potentially provocative stimuli, such as the national flag.

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