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flag of .. liberia

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.10.16

Some friends graciously gave us a denim jacket for Kenny, a hand-me-down from the son.

I found something odd about the American flag sewn into the jacket. The garment was made in Honduras and bought in Japan. I wonder how it wound up with the flag of Liberia on it!

flag of liberia

flag of USA?

My Japanese-Canadian son can now where his Liberian-labeled, made-in-Honduras jacket.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl