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He didn't know what that flag meant. Her family will never forget that he cared.

Credit: Nicole Lemmon via Storyful

A delivery driver dropped off a package and, on his way back to the truck, noticed the flag had gotten tangled. He stopped and straightened it out. 

The flag on Nicole’s porch in South Carolina isn't just a flag. It belonged to her father-in-law — a veteran, and by his family's account the heart of the house — who died unexpectedly in December 2021. His son brought the flag home afterward and hung it there to keep him close.

He had no way of knowing whose flag it was, or what it meant, or that a family inside was still carrying a loss. 

The UPS driver had no way of knowing that, but he still took the time to untangle it. You never know how an act of kindness like this will affect people.

Nicole