A touching video is going viral this week showing a colorblind firefighter cry as he sees the colors on the American flag for the very first time.

Spencer Caradine is a firefighter for the Douglas County Fire Department in Georgia, and he had no idea that he was colorblind until last December, when he was on a hike with his roommate and fellow firefighter Jordan Gardner. When they realized that Spencer was colorblind, Jordan began making him take a variety of color-blind tests. Though Jordan claimed that he was trying to learn more about Spencer’s condition, he was actually planning to buy him EnChroma glasses that would allow him to see color for the first time.

Jordan got the entire fire department involved in his plan, and they all pitched in to help buy the glasses. On the Fourth Of July, the firefighters presented Spencer with the glasses, and they brought him outside so that the very first thing he would see in color was the American flag.

“I didn’t know how to explain why we had a 6-foot-by-10-foot American flag hanging off the side of the engine. I was like, ‘This is your first Fourth of July at the station. We’re having a big breakfast, that’s just what we do at the firehouse.’ Neither of us are emotional people at all and we both cried,” Jordan said.

Spencer now wears the glasses almost all the time, and his firefighter friends have bought him a coloring book and colored pencils to help him learn his colors. They’ve also brought him on adventures to experience various new things with the glasses, including fireworks, an aquarium, and hiking. Watch him see the American flag’s colors for the first time in the video below!