Patriot
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Friend sent me this link and I thought it was pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTFdZCa5qM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTFdZCa5qM
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Honoring Fallen Vets
- Thread starter Patriot
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You've gotta love that guy and his neighbors.
The Middleboro Traffic Circle is officially named The American Legion Memorial Circle.
There is a lighted flag pole in the middle of it.
For the two years that I was Legion Commander, I put out a request for casket flags to be donated to be flown in honor of dead veterans.
About once a month (the flags didn't last much longer than that), I'd take a picture of the donor or the person whom was being remembered, post it with a story about the vet in the local newspaper, and hoist the new flag. That flag would fly for about a month until it started to get shabby and a new one would go up.
It's amazing how many flags were donated and how many stories of the vets I got.
I took great pleasure in that duty.
I don't know if the practice was continued after I left the post...I think it was.
The next time you drive around the Middleboro Rotary, take a moment to think about the flag flying there.
The Middleboro Traffic Circle is officially named The American Legion Memorial Circle.
There is a lighted flag pole in the middle of it.
For the two years that I was Legion Commander, I put out a request for casket flags to be donated to be flown in honor of dead veterans.
About once a month (the flags didn't last much longer than that), I'd take a picture of the donor or the person whom was being remembered, post it with a story about the vet in the local newspaper, and hoist the new flag. That flag would fly for about a month until it started to get shabby and a new one would go up.
It's amazing how many flags were donated and how many stories of the vets I got.
I took great pleasure in that duty.
I don't know if the practice was continued after I left the post...I think it was.
The next time you drive around the Middleboro Rotary, take a moment to think about the flag flying there.
Y'all really need to post Kleenex warnings on these things for some of us.![[wink]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/002.gif "Wink [wink]")
For anyone who does counted cross stitch I am involved with a group that makes memorials for our fallen service members.
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