of Questioning the unicorns in my 'civics' books..
I owe her much--mainly time and sentimentality saved, about flags and related paraphernalia of jingoism everywhere.
You need to write Your book, too--You vas Dere! Charlie; I reckon not many still above ground possess such experience, and textbooks reveal Nothing.

The kid-brainwashing can be ameliorated only via rilly-good Stories by people who have lived the various 'sides' and Can calmly set-out the +/- experience(s).
I wot.