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Don Gardner

They say that one can tell a lot about someone’s character by observing how that individual acts when no one is watching. Don Gardner is a sanitation worker in Utah. Two days after a particularly horrific storm, two children observed something at their curb that they had never seen before.

Their mother, Brooke Crowley, later related the following:

“They asked what the garbage man was doing,” said Brooke. “I looked out the window and he had gotten out of his garbage truck, he was taking our flag off of the flagpole, and then he started to fold it.

“It took him over 10 minutes to fold that flag. He did something that he didn’t have to do, and he did it when [he thought] nobody else was watching.”

After painstakingly folding the flag, he placed it on the passenger seat of his truck, and continued on his route.

Again from Brooke Crowley:

“It was April 19. The night or the weekend before that we had a severe windstorm. It actually destroyed our shed on the side of our house, and it spilled some of our garbage, and that’s when it broke our flag.”

She added, “I was cleaning up our yard and trying to pick up all of the debris, and I picked up the flag and the pole, wasn’t thinking, and threw it in the trash.”

Brooke’s shock and embarrassment turned to admiration when she realized what Don Gardner was doing. The former Marine, who’s collected trash in Emery County for 11 years, was retiring the flag in honorable fashion. Tossing the flag was a mistake, she admits, so she filmed his dutiful act to share on social media as a lesson for others.

Don Gardner later told Fox News, “I took an oath once to defend this country and our flag, and I still do.”

To repeat, a true judge of someone’s character is what he/she does when no one is watching. To me without question, Don Gardner is a man with upstanding character … truly someone we can all admire and adulate.

FYI: Old or damaged flags can be properly burned, buried, or recycled by the American Legion or Boy and Girl Scout groups in flag retirement ceremonies.

BTW: I need to correct one thing … there is no such thing as a “former marine” … as “once a marine, always a marine!” 

5/29/22

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