St. Paul Pioneer Press
The flag of France flies beside the flag of the United States on the banks of the Mississippi River in Little Falls, a tribute to a strong friendship between the Minnesota town where Charles Lindbergh came up and the French town where he touched down.
Maybe it would’ve been smarter if Lucky Lindy had landed in London.
Little Falls is waving the red, white and blue, fighting over whether the French tricolor (its colors are the same as those of the American flag) is worthy to fly over American soil while America is in the middle of a war that was opposed by the French government.
The Little Falls City Council is scheduled to decide Monday whether to take the French flag down from a city park named for Le Bourget, France. That’s the Paris suburb where Lindbergh, whose boyhood home was in Little Falls, landed on May 21, 1927, after completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic. He was greeted by a throng of 100,000, madly cheering. The cheering has stopped, at least on this side of the water.
