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It’s only six weeks until Memorial Day. Is your flag fit to fly? It may seem a bit early to prepare for a holiday many Americans barely acknowledge any more, but Fran Ramirez can’t start soon enough. Every Memorial Day for the past decade, the 72-year-old Ramirez has made it her business to ensure that each of the 5,000 flags that flutter over the graves of American veterans buried in Union Cemetery is clean, pressed and free from wear. As a member of the United Veterans Memorial Day Committee — a collective of local veterans’ groups that organize Memorial Day services at cemeteries — Ramirez starts the process two months ahead, carefully checking each flag for stains or tears. Before she took on the job, the 8-by-12 inch cloth flags were stored tightly rolled, leaving them wrinkled and misshapen when placed on the graves the following year. The wrinkled flags “didn’t look right,” says Ramirez, who is the daughter, sister, wife and...
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