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97-Year-Old Widow Gets Flagpole Rope Fixed By Finding Men With Tall Ladder

June 28, 2018

A 97-year-old widow had no idea how she was going to get the rope on her 20-foot-tall flagpole fixed so she could continue flying the American flag and a U.S. Marine Corps flag (in honor of her late husband) outside her home in Portland, Maine.

So she asked her caretaker to call the city’s Fire Department, according to the Portland Press Herald.

A ladder truck appeared with two firefighters, and now both Old Glory and the Marine Corps flag are flying again — in time for the Fourth of July.