A propane delivery man was caught on camera fixing a fallen American flag at a veteran’s home on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima last month after a snowstorm blew the flag away.
Gulf War Marine Corps veteran David Price lives down a dirt road in Maine and was low on propane right before a snowstorm. He decided to stay at a different house so he would have heat, he told Fox News.
He still hoped, however, the propane company would manage to brave the weather and fill his tank.
An employee of Dead River Propane Company did more than just that.
Price checked his home security camera and noticed that his American flag had blown over from the storm.
“I really had given some thought to asking my boss if I could leave work and go fix my flag,” he noted. “And then, I get an alert on my phone, my security cameras, and it’s the delivery driver.”
He then watched propane delivery man Anthony Gagliardi trek through the snow, dust off the flag, and reattach it before even filling the propane tank.
“You know, he could have walked by the flag. He could have done the delivery first, come back, and gotten it. Whatever. But he immediately saw that flag and took the time to clean it off, put it up, make sure it was upright, and then went and did his delivery,” he said.
Price was moved by the gesture — especially since it happened 75 years after Iwo Jima, which is known for the iconic photo of Marines raising the American flag.
“And 75 years later, the respect for the flag that these Marines fought and died for, that millions of people fought and died for, exists even for [a] propane delivery driver on a really windy, snowy, day in Maine when no one was looking.”
