Two Raymore, Missouri teens are getting a lot of recognition for a good deed that seemed like it was just second nature to them.
The Raymore Police Department said Jacob Parker and Dillon Russell were driving on South Madison Street on Saturday afternoon when they spotted an American flag lying on the ground in the middle of the roundabout near Recreation Park.
They pulled off and walked over to pick it up.
Sgt. Terry Fedric with the police department saw the boys standing in the roundabout and asked them what was happening.
"For me, it's a special thing to see something like that. I come from a military background," he said. "It was something I think I recognized, as well as the department recognized, as a simple act of young patriotism."
Parker told him they saw the flag, which was originally put up for Raymore’s Spirit of America Celebration, on the ground and didn’t like seeing it like that.
"The flag shouldn’t be disrespected like that, so I tried to get help to put it back up," Parker told the Raymore Police Department.
Fedric went to find someone to help, and the entire time he was gone, Parker wouldn’t let the flag touch the ground.
Fedric returned with Shawn Jonas, a Raymore Parks & Recreation employee. He helped Parker reattach the flag using new zip ties.
"It goes without saying that with the way the world is these days, it's good to see something like this," Fedric said in a Facebook post by Raymore Police. "With it being the weekend before the Fourth of July, this couldn't have happened at a better time to highlight the patriotic spirit from two young men from Raymore."
Parker told 41 Action News it was his Eagle Scout training that helped him know it was simply the right thing to do.
"They taught me how to treat the flag with respect and it should never touch the ground,” he said.
