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Celebrating the 4th in Eastern Kentucky Save Email Print
Posted: 12:17 AM Jul 5, 2008
Last Updated: 12:19 AM Jul 5, 2008
Reporter: Randy Yohe
Email Address: randy.yohe@wsaz.com

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BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Under an airplane hangar at Worthington's annual 4th of july Wings and Wheels show, the rain didn't stop hometowner Don Harris from a holiday rock and roll in his home made physics defying "Harris wheel".

"My dad built a ferris wheel. I thought if you could spin the seat around that would really be something," Don Harris explained to WSAZ.

Under a tent at Ashland's Summer Motion, volunteers prepared for a patriotic display with 27 historic American flags on loan from Baltimore's American Flag Foundation, along with the flags from all 50 states highlighting West Virginia, Ohio and the commonwealth of Kentucky.

"We've got the 15 stars when KY came in," Scott Martin explains. "We've honored veterans, first responders, this year we decided to go back to basics, back to the flag."

Back at Wings and Wheels, I asked the American owner of this Russian-designed, Romanian-built Yak 52 acrobatic plane if those countries would have the freedom to show off a US aircraft like this on their independence day?

"I never thought of that? It is russian, yeah," Grayson Gallaher said.

Both events with flags and American hot dogs for lunch are what Independence Day celebrates.

"To think of the places it's been planted, allowing us our freedoms, that's what the flag is all about," Martin said.
"I love America, we've got a few messes to fix, but it's great," Harris said.

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Posted by: 007 on Jul 5, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Mr. Harris, You're on a roll! Way to go!

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