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More people with American Flags on Independence Day

I met Jim and his family on 4th of July at Ground Zero, the former World Trade Center site. Jim's father served in the US Army and the American Flag is a symbol of freedom to him. It's about remembering the fallen. That's the cost of freedom he told me.
Jim and his family live in California, they just came to visit New York. What makes the States so special for this family is that everyone is able to freely move around and do whatever they want to. There are no checkpoints and checking of IDs as between single states in the US as there is between countries in Europe.

This is Billy. He told me that the United States of America are like one big family. "We are united and people are standing together in these hard times. You know, if a country doesn't stand together it breaks up. People that you never expected are standing together since 9/11. But New York is going to be New York no matter what happens. But still a lot of things changed". The flag is a thing of freedom for him. "Man I gotta go, I just stopped by to pay my respect." Billy looks over to Ground Zero, he crosses himself and drives away.

This is (for now) the end of my Independece Day series on people wearing the American Flag. It's been interesting to talk to those people, getting a little insight into what they think on this huge American holiday.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on July 6, 2005 08:18 PM