Lyle's Blog

June 14 is Flag Day. It’s also President Trump’s birthday and it’s my birthday. I lived in a small town in North Dakota as a small boy. On my birthday there was a parade in town. Pretty cool, all those flags waving for me.

Flag Day has just become another day. Memorial Day, July 4th, Veterans Day, Columbus Day; not too many think they’re special. Most don’t even know what they’re about. I was lucky enough to be born on one of those days. Flag Day is special, it’s my birthday, and it’s the day the greatest president of these United States was born.

1952 was a special time to be a little boy, a time when flags waving brought excitement to a child and everything was right in the world.