19 December, 2006

What one of my students does as a job

One of my students is paid by the army to fold the flag up during army funerals. She's a nice kid, but there is something horrifying to know that an 18 year old kid is being paid to fold up the flag at some veteran's funeral.

She says the hardest part is when you say the words which mean that the flag is meant as a symbol of the dead soldiers. She says that's when people start to cry. She tries to look across them or away.

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