11.   Eventually those flags came to represent nations, not just the men and women who ruled them.

12.   Flags come from all over the country.

13.   Flags came flying.

14.   Groups who say the flag must come down view it as a symbol of slavery and racism.

15.   In remarks given to reporters aboard Air Force One as Clinton flew to Boston, White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said Clinton thinks the flag should come down.

16.   Jonathan Pait, like a majority of South Carolinians, believes the Confederate flag should come down from the statehouse.

17.   McCain, who took a similar position during his campaign, reversed field and said the flag should come down from atop the South Carolina Statehouse.

18.   Out came another flag.

19.   Senator Harvey S. Peeler Jr., a Republican from Gaffney, warned that race relations in the state would worsen if the flag comes down.

20.   So the flag did come from the yacht, after all.