Memphians for America may fade away after Saturday’s flag sale
Retired Marine Jim Brown sits with a U.S. flag at his home on Wednesday, June 24. For 51 years, every Saturday before July 4, Brown and members of the Memphians for America have sold flags at the corner of Poplar and Colonial. The sales likely will end after Saturday. “Maybe five or six members is about all we have now,” Brown said. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The time for “Taps” may have arrived for Memphians for America. The group anticipates its street-corner sales of U.S. flags may be the last after holding the event yearly for a half-century.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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