The U.S. flag may be more visible this week than any other time of year. The Fourth of July holiday finds flags flying on public and commercial buildings, homes, and in parades.
David Walker is someone who is well acquainted with the American flag. His family run business, “Walker Flags Since 1960” is located just outside Louisville. It opened almost 60 years ago as “Colonel R.K Walker Flag Company.”
Walker says the distributor works with six or seven main flag manufacturers in states like Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin. The third generation flag dealer says owning your own business is what America is about. “We meet such awesome people, who are customers of ours. Patriotic type people who appreciate our great country and America,” said Walker.
Walker says his business sells many more American and Kentucky flags than any other flag.
How do Kentuckians view the Americans flag? Here now are several people and their thoughts about the flag and how they feel when they see it displayed. Visits were made to a fireworks tent in Richmond, a barbeque restaurant parking lot just outside Lexington, and a downtown festival.
Here are a collection of thoughts from other people interviewed about the American flag last weekend in central Kentucky.
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