30, 000 STITCHES: THE INSPIRING STORY OF THE NATIONAL 9/11 FLAG

30,000 STITCHES by Amanda Davis. Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport

If you can get your hands on this inspiring picture book, you're going to want to do it!

30,000 Stitches is the moving, true story about a flag that was flown above the wreckage in New York City days after the 9/11 tragedy occured. Within just a few weeks, the flag became very dirty and torn. It was taken down and put away in storage. Six years later, when a tornado came through Greensburg, Kansas, a group of volunteers came from New York to help the town. The residents of the town requested that a memento from the World Trade Center be brought to be placed in a memorial park they planned to construct. The flown flag was the memento that was brought. When the residents saw the flag, they came up with a different idea. Instead, they repaired the flag with bits of flags from their town that had been destroyed in the tornado. From there an even greater idea began to take shape. Send the flag on a trip with a stop in each of the 50 states. At each stop, people from all walks of life could add stitches to the flag to help restore her. This is a beautiful story, that is worth sharing!