Flag Waving

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On my way to an assignment at the theater across the street, I saw these kids out waving flags.  Ran over there and made a quick feature for 9/11.

Dressed in red, white and blue, four-year olds Anna Alagood (front), Emily Aeschbach (left, holding a pinwheel) and Avery Carr (right, flag over face) and the rest of Janet Shoah's preschoolers at First United Methodist Church stand outside the chapel waving American flags in honor of the anniversary of September 11. "We started doing it on the first anniversary to teach kids to love America," said Shoah, who said she wants to instill patriotism in all of them so that they're proud of where they're from.  Shoah and her class also send boxes of supplies to the troops in Iraq, write them letters, send them pictures and right now they're making pillow cases with a child's hand print and a bible verse on each one.