The loan period for a rare Joseon-era flag, which had been captured by U.S. naval forces during the 1871 military action against the Joseon Kingdom and was returned to Korea on a lease, has been extended for another year.
Somewhere in the belly of the glassy, triangular Ganghwa History Museum, there rests a very important flag. The flag is on loan from the U.S. and its lease is almost up.
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Marine Corps Col. Stephen E. Liszewski has a ritual when he returns to his home each day. He looks up at a sign tucked just below the dentil moulding on the imposing portico. The gold leaf lettering has darkened and its paint crackled with age, but it brings a smile to his face. It reads: "Commandant's Quarters."
One might think the favorite spot in the home of Vice Admiral Walter E. "Ted" Carter, Jr., the 62nd superintendent of the Naval Academy, would be an office filled with blinking computers, shelves of model ships or a library.