Jacksonville businessman Steve Thompson has been pressing clothes at his dry-cleaning shop in Arlington since it opened 25 years ago. For 24 of those years, the owner of Sand Dollar Cleaners has been pressing American flags destined to be laid over military caskets for funerals—and has been doing it free of charge, a service to his country. “The Veterans Affairs Office basically ships those [flags] to the funeral homes in a relatively small box. and when they come to the directors, they obviously have a lot of folds and creases and that type of thing in them,” Thompson told The Epoch Times. “And so it takes us a few minutes to actually lay the flags out and do a nice press on them. But they look so much nicer after they’ve been pressed than when they came in. And it’s something that, hopefully, the families will remember.” It’s a service …
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