Our Guardian Angel Needs Us
I served beneath her colors, my grandfather was buried beneath her honor, and now she lay beneath the feet of a crowd who despised her, rejoicing in her demise.
Shailen SharmaManaging Editor, The BeaconShe could not soar anymore, her wings torn. Her country would not hold her up as she fell to the ground. The very people who lived under her gaze cheered at her demise. While this scene may have mirrored the tearing down of our nation’s flag at last semester’s Occupy Beinecke protest, it was in fact not that protest. This was Mao’s revolution incarnate—student protestors who worked tirelessly to tear down every flag of the country that birthed them. While these attacks on China’s flag, monuments, and traditions may have seemed inconse...
