Mom welcomes home son with 100 flags lining street

FLAGS WELCOME SPECIAL AGENT HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN
ABC News
By Kevin Quinn
Friday, August 15, 2014

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- More than 100 US flags line one Fort Bend County street.

They were put there overnight by the mother of a man who just returned from a year-long tour of duty for the State Department in Afghanistan.

Special Agent Mark Richardson says, "I certainly wasn't expecting this. I was really embarrassed, but she's a great mom and it was really sweet of her to do that."

His mother Kathryn calls him a hero. She says, "This boy is the best. He's the best son in the world."

She's been battling breast cancer and other ailments over the past few years and says despite being thousands of miles away, her son has always been supportive of her recovery. She wanted to show him what his devotion means to her.

So she knocked on her neighbors' doors in advance, asking for their permission to place a flag at the edge of each of their properties, so the red, white and blue would line the street as they drove Mark to her home early Friday morning.
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