During the Gulf War，my sister，Jane，bought a flag and asked her apartment's maintenance man, a Vietnam vet，to install a pole for him. When she offered to pay him,he told her there was no way he could take money for putting up the American flag.海灣戰爭期間，我妹妹珍妮買了一面美國國旗，她請房子的維修工—一位越戰的老兵給她豎一根旗桿。當我妹妹為此什給他錢時，他說，他幫助掛美國國旗，無論如何都不該收錢。

　　Jane contacted her local newspaper，and they published an article about the incident. The next time she encountered the maintenance man, he told her that everyone he knew had read her story and that she had made him a celebrity.Jane jokingly asked for his autograph.珍妮來到當地報杜，就此事在報上發表了一篇文章。當珍妮第二次碰到那位維修工時，他對珍妮說他所認識的人都看了她寫的報章，是她使他成為了名人。珍妮開玩笑地說讓他給簽個名。

　　"I don't have time,"the man replied. "I'm too busy setting up American flags.”他回答說:“那我可沒時間，掛美國國旗的事忙得我不可開交。”