TAYLOR MILL, Ky. — A Taylor Mill neighborhood was decked out for Memorial Day this weekend, thanks to one mom who didn't let a recent knee surgery stop her.

Stephanie Whithorn planted 100 American flags along Sunset Drive in Taylor Mill Saturday evening; she bought out two stores of their entire stock of small American flags. She planted them so her neighbors would wake up to find them on Sunday morning.

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"The next morning, my neighbor directly across the street was cutting his grass and stopped me," she said. "(He) asked if I was the one who put the flags out, and he started laughing. I say yes, and he said it was a very pleasant thing to wake up to."

Whithorn has multiple family members who serve or have served in the U.S. military.

For Memorial Day on Monday, she said she'd be in Covington handing out bottled water and flags at the city's parade.

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CINCINNATI — For more than 150 years, some of the American flags that adorn things like US naval ships, or have been given to world leaders as gifts, have been made right here in Cincinnati.

The National Flag Company has called the West End home since 1869, and members of the Schaller family have been helping to lead the company for many years.

Art Schaller Jr., the National Flag Company's current president, started working at the company in 1979, two years after his father, Art Schaller Sr., became president of the company. Now Artie, Schaller's son, works at the company, and one day the company will be in his hands.

"It's kind of in the Schaller blood," Art Schaller said.

And what makes the flags made by the National Flag Company so special is they are sewn by skilled craftsmen, like Schaller himself, who still finds time to work with a needle and thread.

"I enjoy sewing," Schaller said. "I'd say, this year, I'm probably sewing a good 20 hours a week or so."

Schaller said he thinks the National Flag Company is one of the best-kept secrets in Cincinnati.

"To some degree, we still are," he said. "But we feel like we're kind of starting to come out of our 150-year-old shell a little bit."