NEBRASKA CITY – The Veterans of Foreign Wars presented the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired with Braille flags on Wednesday.

Roger Kopf, who has 30 years of military service, and Purple Heart recipient Gary Hobbie presented the flags with the theme, “red, white and blue and I can see her too.”

Kopf: “These people here with the school are just as much an American as anybody else. And, to let them know more about the flag, you know, if they can’t see it, at least they can use their fingers to learn that way about it. It’s all about patriotism.”

  by Dan Swanson

 

Student Seth Kadlec   read the Braille inscription on the flag’s red stripes.

Kadlec:  “It says, I pledge allegiance … and justice for all.”

The tactile Braille flag was created by the Kansas Braille Transcription Institute in Wichita, Kan., and Congress placed it at Arlington National Cemetery in 2008.

Kopf said while students may not be able to see the flag, they should know that it’s for them too.