So we open it and inside is one of the flags (we're told it's one of a few) Ian flew when he "got the keys to the car". (The enclosed letter was so full of Ianisms, it was fantastic.) Pretty damn cool.
We're going to fold it up all nice and pretty like (as soon as we google how to fold a flag into a triangle because everyone knows you will be put in front of a firing squad if you don't do it right) and hang it up until such a time comes when we have a big old house with a big old flag pole and we can fly it and tell our kids that the flag came from Iraq when Ian was over there, yes the same Ian who is currently playing Halo with Daddy and talking about treacherous precipices, and don't listen to Mommy and Daddy when we talk about humping snowbanks young man!
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I found this site (http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfb_disp7a.html) to be pretty helpful, but they mean it when they say it's a two person job. And no, the couch doesn't count as a person. I tried. Then I called in the Marines. Literally. And made a friend fold them. Michaels' has really cool flag display cases, too.
Bree, thank you for being so helpful. and such. I suppose people in California do have their uses, even if they are limited on Thursday nights at around 9:59
I resent that! Even though I live in the same state as the Governator, I hardly consider myself a Californian. Burn!
I'm glad to see that the flag made it through with no difficulties. And I feel your pain about folding them: I conscripted another pilot to help me fold all the flags I was sending, and they alternated between looking like they'd been folded by the Marine Corps Silent Drill Team and a five-year-old crack baby. And Bree is right: inanimate objects don't count as a person. Even though I tried using my flight manual, which weighs as much as another person, its lack of opposable thumbs proved an obstacle too large to surmount.
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