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The white flags billowing in the cool breeze Tuesday morning looked magnificent.
What they represent is anything but beautiful.
The 198 flags flying outside the CASTLE headquarters on Midway Road symbolize the number of children throughout Florida who died in 2008 as a result of child abuse. Seven of those kids were from the Treasure Coast, all but two of them from St. Lucie County.