... an underwater flag unfurling here in the Keys.
Admittedly, I went looking for something suitable for the holiday weekend, which means I had to sort through all the news stories about the tragic fourth of July boating accident (right after the fireworks ... details are still being gathered) ... or the undercover cop shooting that was just a few blocks away in a restaurant parking lot (he intervened in a domestic dispute) ... or the upcoming governor's election (my vote is *really* going to count down here, is all I'm saying for now) ...
Eventually, I found an article that caught my eye about a retired US flag from Morris IL (a "suburb" of my former hometown of Chicago, in the sense that anything between Chicago and Milwaukee/St.Louis/Springfield is just a suburb of Chitown to anyone who's lived there) that once hung in the 9/11 Memorial Park *there* that was sent to the Keys *here* to be placed on the scuttled-five-years-ago Hoyt S Vandenberg (a former military ship "retired" to the ocean floor).
So there you go ... if you look hard enough, you can find a "good news" story hidden in the interwebs somewhere, befitting of the wrapping holiday weekend ...
THE FLAG UNFURLING:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Divers-Unfurl-US-Flag-at-Shipwreck-Near-Keys-265899721.html
MORE COVERAGE OF THE FLAG UNFURLING:
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2014/jul/05/divers-unfurl-us-flag-at-shipwreck-near-fla-keys/
THE FORMER HOME OF THE FLAG:
https://www.facebook.com/Morris911Memorial
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