The Flags

The Cemetary Flags

Our church used to be by the cemetery and quite often we would walk home after primary which was on Wednesday afternoon.  We'd walk home five or six blocks.  As we were walking home one day we saw all these flags on all these white graves so Richard and Betsy thought it would be great if we took all the flags and took them home and decorated our front yard.  We thought we would be very patriotic.  We probably collected 100 flags and we took them home.  We had them all over the front yard even lining the sidewalks to the front door.  We thought it would be really fun if we called the newspaper so they could take a picture of our patriotic yard.  One of the older kids said that probably wasn't a good idea since we'd stolen all the flags.  Someone mentioned that maybe we should take them back but since we didn't know whose graves they went with we just left them in our yard instead.