Patient patriots are first to unfurl a flag after 8 months of waiting for Turnpike Authority policy

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If there was an indication of public support for three Vietnam War veterans who attached two new American flags to the mesh fencing on the Red Hill Road bridge over the Garden State Parkway, it was the horns. Parkway drivers who looked up and saw the trio, securing the flags with thick plastic tie-warps, tapped their horns in approval, as did other drivers who passed a Middletown police SUV protecting the veterans from traffic on the overpass. Wednesday was the culmination of an eight-month odyssey. The three members of the Middletown Veterans Affairs Committee became the first in the state to…

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