A PATRIOTIC VIEW: The Main Street Bridge was lit up in rainbow colors Sunday night in honor of the 49 people massacred at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub by a loan gunman. The towboat Patriot is moored on the north shore of the Arkansas River.

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