Flags around town

About twenty years ago as my neighbor at the time, Della Broderick, and I were driving down Wimberley’s main street, RR 12, she commented that a Texas town she had visited had lined their main street with the U.S. Flag on patriotic holidays. Wouldn’t it be nice if Wimberley did that, she said. Well, Keep Wimberley Beautiful pounced on her suggestion and bought some flags to put up. PEC gave us permission to use their light poles so we installed flag holders on about thirty of them. We placed the holders high enough so that someone walking beneath the flags could not just reach up and pull them off. This means that a ladder has to be climbed for each flag to be put up and then taken down.

At first, members of KWB put them up and took them down. I remember one year, my husband who was in his late seventies at the time, was climbing up and down the ladder to do so. A young man in a construction truck stopped and said, “Here, Sir, let me do that for you.” What a gift that was! My husband, a veteran of WWII who loved the flag, was only too happy to turn the job over to the young man.

These flags are now put up and taken down by Cub Scout Pack 127 under the leadership of Cub Master, David Simoneaux. These cub scouts are the young ones, in the fourth grade or below. Please give them your thanks as they have been very faithful and they take great pride in doing this for our veterans and all of our community.

In addition to the Cub Scouts who put the flags up on the poles through town for all of our patriotic days, the Boy Scouts in Troop 127 under the leadership of Aaron Jones, place the small flags on the grave of each veteran for Memorial Day. Again, what a wonderful tribute to our veterans and what a gift from these young scouts. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Written by Martha Knies