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San Antonio Man Gives Away His Idea for Motorized Flag Raising Invention
Aired November 29, 2001 - 05:45 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: If you're like a lot of people around the country even putting an American flag outside of your home, you might be worried about the proper etiquette with which you're supposed to treat the flag with proper respect.
Well, one man in San Antonio has come up with a clever way to do just that, and Jacqueline Ortiz from our affiliate KMOL in San Antonio has this man's story.
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MAJOR C.J. TRENDA, U.S. ARMY (RET.): I'd like to see the flag flown more.
JACQUELINE ORTIZ, KMOL NEWS 4 REPORTER (voice-over): Instead of just talking about it, retired Major C.J. Trenda got an idea. He started with a flagpole.
TRENDA: Electric motor and timers and a little bit of dressing and engineering and trial and error and it worked.
ORTIZ: And out came the red, white and blue.
TRENDA: I would like for somebody to take this idea and go with it. Manufacture, go with it, present it to people, sell it.
ORTIZ: Retired Major Trenda says he wants everyone to have one, and in return...
TRENDA: So they call it the Trenda method.
ORTIZ: Yes, he's actually giving his idea away.
TRENDA: You come around here, that's where the timers are.
ORTIZ: It's as easy as setting the time. One motor pulls the flag up, the other down. Trenda says no matter how many times the flag goes up, he always feels the same way.
TRENDA: Francis Scott Key says that the star spangled banner yet waves. Respect, you know, the reason why all of this was started, and when it started and all of that. Sure, it's a symbol of our country.
ORTIZ: Jacqueline Ortiz, News 4, San Antonio.
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