Realtor Nell Anne Hunt has a simple philosophy when describing her love of country: We don’t live in America — America lives in us.
Every year during the week leading up to Independence Day, she and 300 of her volunteer friends bring that belief to life. It’s called the Great Flag Caper, and it’s been a cherished Irving tradition for more than three decades.
“Thirty-three years ago, I moved to a new neighborhood. Everyone was so nice that I decided to buy a couple of hundred flags and put them in the yards of my closest neighbors on the Fourth of July,” the Ebby Halliday Realtor explained. “Everyone liked them so much that the next year I bought 400.
“Then the whole neighborhood wanted them and said they’d help put them out. Then the whole city wanted flags, so now we have a 501(c)(3) with over 300 volunteers who plant over 40,000 flags every Fourth of July.”…