Soldiers To Receive Care Package With Useless Flag

Yesterday was, apparently, Philadelphia Flag Day, which celebrates the flag people see and go, “Huh?” They do this, of course, after seeing the Pennsylvania flag and also going, “Huh?”

The blue-and-yellow Philadelphia flag has been around for 112 years, but yesterday was the first ever ceremony celebrating it, because we Philadelphians usually have better things to do than go around celebrating flags we never really see. (I mean, even if you decided to fly a Philadelphia flag, most people probably wouldn’t know what it was anyway.)

But they had a nice ceremony yesterday, you could win a free flag and a soldier got leave from the Army to come home and get the first flag. And, also, he’s not the only one of our brave fighting men being helped:

The nonprofit organization Partners for Civic Pride is working to help school children send 100 “Philly flag packages” to local soldiers serving in Iraq.

The Philadelphia flag better just be the wrapping paper for bars of chocolate. Or, y’know, body armor.

Ceremony Marks 112th Anniversary of Philadelphia’s Flag [KYW 1060]