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Black and white voters across Georgia finally have a flag they can agree on. The state's current banner, modeled after the first national flag of the Confederacy, won by a nearly 4-1 ratio Tuesday over its sole rival, a blue-and-gold banner that flew briefly over Georgia from 2001 until last year. "I had heard," said Christy Myrick, 35, of Atlanta, "that if [the current] flag is chosen there won't be any more discussion and it will be over, finally." That's the pitch top Georgia politicians and business leaders had made to voters in advertising and campaign calls in the days...

Polls suggest that veterans prefer Bush; no clear answer why By CHRISTOPHER KRIVA, cjkriva@naplesnews.com October 31, 2004 The battle for the veterans' vote in the presidential race reached a boiling point in Naples in recent days, with Republicans sending Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, and Democrats dispatching former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig. Some area veterans say Sen. John Kerry's combat record leaves many unanswered questions. Others say President George W. Bush's foreign policy has left the military badly overextended and in need of new direction. This year, polls suggest that veterans as a...