Fifth-grader puts stitch in 9/11 flag

Kieran Sauer, 10, and a Vernon fifth-grader, was the youngest boy to place a stitch in the National 9/11 Flag. He was with his grandfather, Wilbur Wesselius, a Vietnam veteran, a sergeant and a Bronze Star recipient, who also placed a stitch in the flag when the flag was in Milford, Pa. Wesselius was a member of the Color Guard that received the flag from three New York City firefighters.

History in the making
The National 9/11 Flag is one of the largest American flags to fly above the wreckage at Ground Zero. It is on a journey across the nation and some are calling it: “our generation’s Star-Spangled Banner.”
According to the Web site www.national911flag.org.
[The flag was] destroyed in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11 and stitched back together seven years later by tornado survivors in Greensburg, Kan. As it makes its way around the nation, people are accorded “the privilege of stitching the flag back to its original 13-stripe format,” a goal that is intended “to inspire 300 million Americans with the flag’s rich visual history in order to deepen our sense of citizenship and national pride and bolster the spirit of volunteerism on the 9/11 Anniversary and year-round. When complete, The National 9/11 Flag will become a part of the permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum being built at the World Trade Center.