By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

More than 1,200 American flags are proudly flying across Hays today, posted by volunteers with the Hays Kiwanis Club.

The group was unable to place the flags last week on Labor Day due to inclimate weather. They decided instead to erect the 1,202 U.S. flags on Patriot Day Sept. 11.

Kiwanis member Eddie Perrett and his father Harold Perrett, a Vietnam veteran, were out at dawn Tuesday with 49 flags loaded in the back of Eddie’s hatchback Hyundai.

They made 49 stops, placing the flags in front of homes and businesses in northwest Hays which are participating in the Kiwanis Flag Project fundraiser.

The flags will fly all day and be retrieved at dusk.