One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
VFW Buster DEO Post #4067 members Mickey Mecklenburg, Bob Kapp, Jim Layton and Roy Waters (holding the flag) join Honorable Judge John C. McKeon in his courtroom last week in Malta to swap out a very old flag (go ahead, count the stars.)
For at least the past 57 years, an incorrect version of the American Flag has been displayed in the district courtroom in the Phillips County Courthouse.
It was the keen-eye of VFW Buster DEO Post #4067 Chaplin and Judge Advocate Roy Waters who discovered the discrepancy a few months ago.
"I just grabbed a hold of it and started counting the stars," Waters said of the discovery. "It hasn't been changed here since at least 1959...I was 14 at the time."
Waters admitted that he doesn't generally walk around inspecting American flags for the correct number of stars, but for whatever reason, the fl...
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