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Article: A tradition reappears; Metro families revive old home-front symbol.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 2, 2003
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Byline: Lourdes Medrano Leslie; Staff Writer
The red, white and blue banner that Mary Smith taped to the porch window of her St. Paul home last week lets the world know that one of her loved ones fights abroad.
The banner - a blue star on a white field, trimmed in red - is just like the banners that the 71-year-old Smith remembers seeing as a child in the homes of aunts and uncles whose sons fought in World War II.
As the war in Iraq wears on, these blue-star banners are making a comeback in the Twin Cities metro area and around the country. They were seldom displayed during the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars but were popular in both ...