Via Redding Record Searchlight:
A 12-year-old Redding boy will be a guest Tuesday at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.
Preston Sharp, who has won acclaim for placing U.S. flags and flowers at the graves of North State veterans since 2015, will be one of a number of presidential guests at Trump’s speech, the White House announced Monday.
He is attending the address at the invitation of Donald and Melania Trump and will sit in the House of Representatives gallery with the first lady during the speech, the White House said.
Sharp is being recognized for his work honoring veterans at military cemeteries and elsewhere, the White House said.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the presidential guests “one of the most important traditions” of the State of the Union addresses.[…]
Sharp, the creator of the Flag and Flower Challenge, has been placing flags and flowers on the graves of veterans since Veterans Day 2015.
He began doing so after visiting his U.S. Navy veteran grandfather’s grave, only to discover that there were no flags placed on the graves of veterans.
So he began to take it upon himself to do so.
“I knew I wanted to do something, because if it wasn’t for them fighting for us then we wouldn’t be here,” he has said.
HT: Patrick Hussion