What upsets him now, said Mr. McCarty, whose modest home is decorated with Marine insignia and a Marine flag, is the way Mr. McVeigh's scheduled execution next week has dragged Kingman again under an unflattering spotlight that he and other residents say the town does not deserve.
The space shuttle Endeavour, which is docked to the station and took up a new crew, carried thousands of small flags representing families of the victims, badges and patches of the New York City Police and Fire departments, and a Marine flag saved from the Pentagon fire.
This is the Marine last flag.
He has taken famous photojournalistic images and removed all people and objects, leaving only a landscape or cityscape behind: Iwo Jima, without Joe Rosenthal's Marines and flag; Saigon, without Eddie Adams's pistol and victim; Sudan, without Kevin Carter's vulture and child.
On Veterans Day at Mary Fay Pendleton elementary school on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base, American flags lined the sidewalks.
The whole atmosphere, which does indeed resemble a boatyard clubhouse with its flags, marine art and varnished wood, draws you right in, sits you right down and makes you hungrier than you were just a minute ago.
Moments later, the marine removed the flag, apparently on orders from a superior.
"Marine survey, marine safety.
That order was loosely followed until Wednesday, when the marine briefly unfurled the flag on the face of the statue.
