Dan Walker, 81, an Army veteran who was honored for retrieving and burying a U.S. flag that had been burned in protest during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, died of prostate cancer Sept. 16 at his Fort Worth home.
TV cameras recorded Walker carefully retrieving the flag remnants so they could be buried properly.
"I didn't want someone sweeping it up with a broom and putting it in an ashcan," the West Point graduate and veteran of World War II and the Korean War told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram afterward.
