A father's lesson on patriotism to his son turns into a community effort in Seaford, New York.
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Griff welcome back a fathers
Griff welcome back a fathers
lesson to his son about
patriotism. Now has an entire
community honoring, the Red
white and blue all started last
month when Eric and his son
Frankie went out to hang a few
american flags
what started into a flag here
and there
turned into hundreds throughout
their community
here with More- is father and
8 year old Son Franky
Good Morning. Thank you for
being here.
Thank you. Thank you for
having us
good morning,
Griff all right Eric. Let are
the start with the obvious
question.
Why did you start doing this?
Are you surprised what its
become
I am? I am.
I started doing it in June.
I seen flags popping up
throughout the five boroughs
and I thought it would be a
great idea to get Frankie out
there with me, because we were
stuck in quarantine.
It was something to do together
and I just we started with
one flag in front of my house on
utility poll
and then I started a page on
Facebook and it took off
Griff Franky. Let me ask you a
question.
Your father wanted to teach you
a listen, why you are doing these
flags.
Do you understand why you are
doing this
because there is a quarantine
and he wanted to get me out of
the house.
Griff has he talked to you
about America and what this
country is?
Yes,
Griff. What has he taught you?
What does America mean to you,
Frankie
Frankie
im, putting him on the spot
there Eric
do you want to help me out a
little bit?
What do you want Frankie to grow
up to know about America?
You know I wanted him to see
that there is so much good in
the world and by doing something
as small as putting up a flag on
a utility pole could cause such
an amazing movement
and him being out there with me,
the entire town of Seaford came
out, beeping horns,
saying beautiful things to us
wishing, God bless America and
the whole point is for them to
go out and hang a flag in front
of their home with their family,
and they have come out in
droves,
and I wanted him to see that
something so small could be so
big
and it could be an amazing
amazing and positive change.
Griff, Frank Yrkts. I see you
smiling when you see cars,
honking and people singing the
anthem. How does that make? You
feel
good
because, like I love when they honk, because I feel like were
honk because I feel like were
getting a lot of like care
Griff, let me ask you Eric,
tragically, we have seen night
after night and elsewhere as we
have seen the riots throughout
the country, american flags
being burned.
Is this part of the reason why
you dooring that, and how does
that make you feel
you know when I first
started doing it? It was again
because I had seen other towns
and communities doing it.
I love the american flag.
I love what it stands for.
I wanted it to decorate the
streets.
I just you wanted it to be a
positive look at the flag.
I wanted him and everyone else
to seat positivity in what the
flag is and what it could be
Griff its not going to stop
only a few seconds left.
Franky. Are you going to keep
hanging flags,
yeah,
Griff, atta boy?
Thank you very much for what you
are doing and thank you for.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.