Back in 2018 the Georgia native Tom Saccenti and his son Micah (8 years old at the time) decided that it would be fun to make an American Flag from leftover wood. They had seen this done on a YouTube video and it looked like a fun project to work on.
After making a few bad ones, they finally had an end product they loved and a great new hobby to enjoy together.
“My dad and me thought it would be a good idea to do it as a father-son project. We loved it so much that we went to our church and we showed them how to do it for Veterans Day. We made about 20 flags before we got it right,”
Micah told Fox News.
Tom Saccenti is a former police officer and he goes around the country with his family teaching local police departments, universities and churches new safety techniques.
The good news is that 2 years later Micah is still making flags, but he’s got his brother James to build with him. The brothers have continued to make flags for their community as they travel with their dad. During each trip, the boys give away a flag to one lucky raffle winner.
The flags are given out for free to officers or veterans. Once the coronavirus stay-at-home orders were put into place the conference traveling stopped but the boys creation didn’t stop!
With the extra time the boys decided that they would transition to making blue-line flags and delivering them to police offices in nearby police departments.
“We thought what can we do at our home to kind of still honor people who are working during this time. And so we thought what a great way to honor some of our local heroes, police officers,”
said Saccenti.
The Saccenti boys have given away 50 flags and raised over $2,000 for the Boys and Girls Missionary Group and they don’t plan on stopping anytime soon!
Their next step? Saving up for an engraver so they can put the hero’s name on the flag before giving it to them.