Posted on 01/30/2018 1:36:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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.
Other invited presidential guests include a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who lost both his legs and eyesight in Iraq in 2007; a fire prevention technician who saved 62 people, including children, when a Southern California wildfire encircled their camp in July; and four parents whose children were killed by gang members.
Still other guests include a police officer who adopted a child from opioid-addicted parents; first-time homeowners; small-business owners who offered employees larger holiday businesses due to a package of tax cuts signed by Trump; founder of The Cajun Navy, a nonprofit group that engages in rescue efforts; and an Army staff sergeant who aided a team member wounded in November by an IED, saving his life.
"Some of these individual stories are heroic," Huckabee Sanders said. "Some are patriotic. Others are tragic."
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.
bmp
Awesome! Great to see there is hope for future generations... I was losing it after seeing the all the reported tide pod challenges last week.
Democrats will hate this kid...hope he isn’t in a public school
And some dem is going to invite a pink pony.
This whole bringing someone to work with you crap is just stupid now. I sure this kid is a great kid. I respect what he did. But what does this have to do with the crumbling state of our union.
Keep in mind that “news” is based on stuff that is different. There are many million great kids out there.
Sounds like a great kid. Good to see that there are still families like this in Northern California.
I’m impressed with Trump’s guest list...unlike Joe Kennedy who’ll bring a Freak to to SOTU...if I was a Congresscritter, I’d bring the corpse of Mary Jo Kopekne when Joe does the reply...
I believe The Memo is not even going to be mentioned.
-PJ
I heard that Mr. Willeford, the hero who took down the shooter at the church massacre in TX, will be a guest of the Trumps, too.
BTTT!
I know, I have some awesome grandkids for that matter, just nice to see some of the good ones get the credit they deserve.
I don’t want to sound like an old, cranky, bastard...but I wish we would used these occasions to have a frank conversation with the Congress and the People of the US. Not a campaign speech, and not show and tell.
If ever we needed Reagan to communicate a serious message its now. (And I know he started all of this stuff....)
Yeah I would agree... don’t need a campaign speech now. His Davos speech was pretty good I thought, seemed like an attempt at being a world leader and not just our President.
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