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Right?

At what point was it a symbol for good?

I don't mean historical precedent. I'm talking times within the life span of somebody in the generations starting from, say, the boomers', when seeing an American flag might have filled them with hope or positivity or optimism that was not born of simple blind nationalism.

Certainly not within my lifetime (born 1990); The closest I can come to that by drawing on my own memory is the huge wave of patriotic fervor that swept the nation after 9/11, and at that time I was just a kid anyway and so of course I was caught up in it too.