Posted February 8, 2018 12:30 pm by Comments

By Christen Smith

Bill Steorts, director of sales for Flags of Valor, assists customers at the 2018 Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Christen Smith/Guns.com)
It’s only been two years since the Steorts family launched a small woodworking shop in northern Virginia called Flags of Valor — and business is booming.
Customers wrapped around the company’s booth at the Great American Outdoor Show on Tuesday, each clamoring for one of the handmade wooden flags on display. Bill Steorts, director of sales, said demand is so high, online orders take upwards of 10 weeks to fill.
“We started out with three employees and now we are at 27 in two years,” he said. “With 17 of them being combat veterans.”
“The Doolittle” on display at the 2018 Great American Outdoor Show. (Photo: Christen Smith/Guns.com)
Flags of Valor prides itself on hiring veterans. Founder Brian Steorts, a former Air Force special operations pilot, deployed eight times to the Middle East and Africa after 9/11. In 2015, a service-related  injury forced him into retirement and while recovering, he said he missed seeing the American flag patch on the sleeve of his uniform every day. He needed a replacement.
“My brother had gone to Pottery Barn and found one that was $350 made in China, but

Source: Guns.com

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