 The emotions that this evoked in the individuals who created it, and how important it was to them, that's the story that's important. And the story can't be told without the physical object. The object brings so much power with it. This is sacred. The care of things like this within our collection is one of the greatest honors. We were contacted by Jerry Lander, one of the descendants of one of the POWs held at Omari Prison Camp in Japan, near Tokyo. And he was looking for this flag. I was really getting to a point where I thought I'd never see the flag. The flag was created sometime around the end of World War II. They created it because they knew that the end of the war was coming, and they wanted to make sure that they had a flag to weigh when the camp was liberated. Every time I saw a picture, the liberation picture, I said, still looking for the flag. His idea of putting his leg out and everything was, nobody was going to get in front of the American flag. This is eight years of work for me. Dad and I started looking for this flag probably two years before he died. He would get on the phone, call his little shipmates, you know, got to find this dang flag. Somebody's going to throw it away. Somebody's basement. I did some research in our database and found that we did have a flag that fit the description. The flag was donated to the Navy's Permanent Artifact Collection in 1973. And so that's why we have it today. I was able to go out to the storage facility, pull the box that the flag was supposed to begin, and there it was. On top of the box, beautifully preserved. The colors are very, very vibrant and intact. And so I was able to then call the family and let them know the good news. This is you. So what is it? It's amazing. And this was a bed sheet. They laid it down and did it with color pencils. What strikes me is the care. You see almost the pencil marks here to make sure that the stars are all aligned. You can just tell that they took so much pride and so much care in making it, and that's what's so amazing. This was the symbol of the greatest country in the world.