Scott Swanson
They stood in a tight semicircle, 30-some local residents on the morning of the Fourth of July, quietly waiting for a signal that it was time.
To say the Pledge of Allegiance.
They were gathered in local real estate agent Todd Branson’s back yard on Meridian Heights, to participate in a tradition that Branson and his next-door neighbor, Mike Harris, began in mid-April: saluting the flag at 7 a.m. every weekday morning and…