More than 40 years after she served, U.S. Coast Guard veteran Rosemary Reder is still working to make the country a better place, and not just on Veteran's Day.
Reder lives in West Palm Beach, but she travels the country educating people about the military, American freedoms and the American flag.
She met with a group of veterans at Fountainview Assisted Living in West Palm Beach for Veterans Day. Some of them served as early as World War II. Reder taught the group facts about the flag they'd never learned before, even being in the military themselves.
It's all part of the nationwide non-profit she started 43 years ago, called The American Flag Society. Reder says it's her way of continuing giving back to her country.
"We need more people to respect the flag, to honor it," Reder said, "Because freedom did not come free. Many of us were hurt. We fought for the country, and the flag represents freedom."
