Collecting flags

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Question1: When did Cannon start collecting flags?

Question2: What does Cannon think of collecting flags?

Cannon has shown a great interest in collecting flags. At the young age of four, Cannon began studying flags, drawing them in his coloring books and putting them up on his walls. Throughout school, he studied flags and tried to find out all he could about them. After university, Cannon studied to be a lawyer. Throughout law school, he continued to collect flags. His classmates, friends, and family started calling him “the flagman”.

Cannon now has more than 200 flags. He shows many of them in his downtown law office. Once he donated country flags for an exhibition on the Olympics.

In addition to collecting flags Cannon also writes about them. He has published three books about flags. He loves to hear from friends who see his books in stores all over the world. A few years ago, Cannon’s hobby reached a new level. He entered a flag design contest and won. The country he lives in asked him to design its flag. Cannon explains his hobby this way, “ Collecting flags is like collecting pieces of history”.