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Although the Flag had been around for many years, it was widely ignored until 1990 when the Mayor of Maui County Linda Lingle, was approached by Rex Potts at a political science gathering at Maui Community College in 1990.Lingle who is now the Governor of Hawaii promised to fly the flag at the Post Office and County building complex in Wailuku, Hawaii. The Maui news was there and recorded the ceremony. Potts could not attend the affair but Chris Zebiac and Mark Dimaline President and Vice President of The Viet Nam Veterans Of Maui County provided the flag that was flown. These two patriots had inspired Potts to "corner" the mayor and get her promise to put up the flag. She did not immediately keep her promise until contacted a second time to which she replied "tell me the time and place and I'll be there. Afterwards, the County and Island of Kauai, not to be outdone, put the flag up under the state flag there. It then went to Arizona and back to Oahu and gradually across the nation until it was common to see it flown in most local and federal government offices. In 1991 the US Congress passed a law officially authorizing the flag to be flown

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