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Artist Paints Huge American Flag for High School Gym so Classmates Can Say Pledge
The son of two U.S. Air Force veterans has made his town proud by painting an American flag mural for his high school—a project that took a whole semester to complete.
Eighteen-year-old Hunter Delsite, from the military town of Mountain Home, Idaho, tackled the project with encouragement from his art teacher. The pair noticed that every classroom had a flag to say the pledge to, except the gymnasium.....
It wasn’t just for the school that Delsite took on the project, though; he also painted it for his parents who once served their country as Airmen.
While working, Delsite contemplated the flag’s significance, and what it mean to him—union, freedom, and being able to speak one’s mind.
“The flag to me really means coming together, that union of all of us … Americans are really from everywhere,” he said.