Greg Carpenter did and a new business was born. They needed to buy these flags somewhere. The American flags visible from the highway, incidentally, numbered 150. A senior lab technician at the Union Carbide Tech Center in South Charleston, Carpenter developed a healthy dose of pride for his country's flag during a stint in the U.S. Navy where he served as a hospital corpsman. But already he has honed a keen eye for flags that are improperly displayed.
Carpenter takes a flag order.
The company is headquartered in the master bedroom of his family's Cross Lanes home. About 60 percent of Luke Enterprises' business comes over the Internet. It's more of a standard of respect rather than an enforcement of law. There are no flag police. Sun, wind, and rain will fade and tear even the toughest weather-resistant flags.