"Denny Landrum, a Richmond native, was an WWII POW in Japan. During the closing days of the war, Landrum and several other POWs secretly created an American flag from bedsheets that were sewn together. They would have been executed if they had been caught. 

Landrum eventually made it home. But the flag he helped to create and later waved as he and his fellow POWs were liberated from the camp vanished over time. Denny’s family has been looking for the flag since 1960. 

When I learned that the flag was being kept on a shelf in DC, I worked with Virginia War Memorial to get it put on display in honor of Denny Landrum’s sacrifices and triumphs as a POW. 

Today, the flag was unveiled at the War Memorial. It has certainly been my great honor and privilege to have played some small role in bringing it to Virginia. On Wednesday, the 74-by-44-inch flag will be displayed publicly for the first time as the Landrum family joins Sen. Mark R. Warner for an unveiling ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial.

Congratulations to the Landrums on finally completing a task that was so important to your Dad."