The son of the US Ambassador in Australia goes to school with my son - they're in their final year - and they are close friends. He stayed at the embassy Friday night and I picked him up Saturday. The Embassy, which is only about a mile from where I live, is encircled by a white fence. All along the front and down the side were thousands of small flags, mostly US but a pretty large number from other countries, including 10 small Aussie flags. Each flag represented a person who was killed on 911. They made a wonderful yet very moving sight, and an awsome tribute.
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United States ambassador Jeff Bleich and his wife, Rebecca,
attach flags to the embassy fence in Yarralumla.
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US ambassador Jeffrey Bleich says community participation
proves to terrorists that people will not be cowed by violent
acts such as 9/11.