To NYC with hope and love

“It was kind of disturbing to me that Old Glory was in a box of rags,” Rusty Baker, ThyssenKrupp employee said.
Baker said he saw an American flag laying in a box of rags at work and removed the flag from the rags and kept it on his desk. On the other hand, Baker did not know what he would eventually do with the flag that would cement an unusual relationship between Middleton workers and One World Trade Center in New York City.
After ThyssenKrupp received the contract to produce 74 elevators and nine escalators for One World Trade Center in New York, all the employees worked hard on the project and took pride in their ability to produce such an order for New York and America. As the last crate was being packaged and shipped for the final shipment to New York, Baker had an idea.
“We were loading that last crate and I thought, ‘you know, I think they’d really appreciate that,” Baker said. He then went to his office, retrieved the flag he had rescued from a box of rags, and nailed the flag to the crate destined for New York.
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