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    Who is honored by the United States for tearing a US flag into small pieces and then scattering these pieces about?

    Question #112008. Asked by star_gazer. (Jan 09 10 2:25 PM)


    Zbeckabee

    		Rear Admiral Robert Peary, left pieces of the flag scattered at the North Pole.

    http://www.usocleveland.org/newsletter/June_2008_Newsletter.pdf

    Jan 09 10, 9:04 PM
    star_gazer

    		Correct.

    So, he is not honored for the cutting up and scattering of the US flag; but, for his early explorations of the North Pole.

    Jan 10 10, 12:23 AM

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