Watching Cecile Cohen and her sister Roberta carefully unfold a nearly eight-foot by five-foot American flag on their Jerusalem dining room table, one senses, through their silent awe, that a lot more than acid-free tissue paper is tucked between its near-perfect folds.
Celebrating independence with an 'Old Glory' that lives up to its name
'Our grandfather, Herman Friedman, bought this flag in 1912,' says 85-year-old Cecile, a retired mathematics teacher and supervisor from New York City.
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