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Ted Kaye, secretary for the North American Vexillological Association, which studies flags and their meaning, said the ''Appeal to Heaven'' banner dates to the Revolutionary War.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian ...