This is an awesome story of Americans being proud of their flag and their country. I got goose bumps seeing how it ended. You may have already seen this but I'll sum up the story as I heard it.
A 13 year old boy in California was flying the flag on the back of his back. His grandfather is a veteran and on the week of veterans day the principal of his middle school told him to take the flag off his bike because some students were offended by it. Offended by the flag of the country you're going to school in WTF ??? Here is the boy being interviewed by the local news:
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Word got out about the story of the flag being banned and this was the result. Americans came together to show support and rally around the boy and the flag. Hundreds of American legion bikers showed up at the boys home and escorted him to school with huge American flags flying proud from their bike.
The boy gets permission to fly his flag and a an apology from a local congress man along with a parade in his honor. The kid actually gets emotional as the crowd greets him. A great little patriot !
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