Mike Christian – a young Hero and POW during the VietNam War – And the story of his hand sewn American
Flag
The story is narrated on a You Tube video as it was
told by John McCain – While a
POW, Mike Christian made a bamboo needle
and then, with pieces of fabric, he managed to sew an American Flag on the
inside of a shirt to hide it for safe keeping. Then each evening, he would turn
the flag side out and they would hang the shirt in their prisoner building to
say the Pledge of Allegiance.
While
they were out of the building, the guards came in and searched as they normally
did and they found the flag shirt. They took Mike Christian out and beat him
horribly. When they brought him back, the other prisoners did what they could
to clean his wounds. That night, as most slept on the concrete floor, John
McCain saw this young man sitting under one of the few lights, eyes almost
swollen closed from the beating, but he had already started to sew another flag
so they would again have it for their daily Pledge.
This
is just a part of the story about this incredible young man who grew up in the
country and did not even own a pair of shoes until he was a teenager. Yet he
went on to become a Navy pilot, which was how he wound up as a POW after his
plane was shot down. Please check out the whole story as it is told in the You
Tube video. It will make your heart pop with American pride. You can find the
link in our United We Roll Blog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_Y87Dx838
