A star-spangled garden....

[kadee79]

What a man, what a family....lessons we can all learn.  One for every virus death in Mass.

GRAFTON – It happens several times a day on the gently sloping road here where Michael Labbe is tending a star-spangled garden.

 
A car slows and pulls over. A camera is raised. A prayer is said. And then the passersby move on in a sudden and solemn silence.



Occasionally, they get out for a handshake. Or an air hug.

Just like 71-year-old Rhonda Lavallee did the other day as she stood in near disbelief to take in the forest of flags that has suddenly blossomed on Labbe’s front lawn.

There are more than 8,000 of them now, each one a red-white-and-blue emblem to a life lost to a killer pandemic that clouds America’s Independence Day, a holiday usually punctuated by kaleidoscopic fireworks and cozy backyard cookouts with family and friends.

“Holy cow! This is absolutely amazing,‘' Lavallee said as she gingerly moved toward the sea of small flags in front of Labbe’s home here. “I can’t think of the proper words to use for something like this. It’s such a touching thing for someone to do for people he didn’t even know.‘'

Yes it is. Touching is a good word for it. There are others. Dedication. Commitment. Patriotic.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-patriotic-forest-takes-root-to-fight-a-stubborn-invisible-and-deadly-enemy/ar-BB16ghtF?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds