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Go and look at your flag. Not the whole thing — just the far edge, the one furthest from the pole. If it has been up more than a season, that edge is where you will find the damage: threads pulled loose, a corner going soft, maybe a split working its way in from the tip. That edge is called the fly end, and it is where almost every flag in America gives out. What is actually happening up there A flag in wind is not a sheet being pushed. It is a wave travelling from the heading out to the f …