Flag Day

Johnny Hunt

Flag

Retirement

Ceremony

P A G E 9

Thank you to the nine volunteers that distributed flags to the community on Flag Day, June 14, to promote awareness of American Flag Day! There were 1000 flags distributed and

$818.00 in donations that will support our Lodge Veterans and Children’s charities. Thank you to Steve Petrie for contributing the flags! We have approximately 1500 flags remaining in our inven-tory. For next year, some of the committee budg-et will be used to add our Lodge name and num-ber on our reflective vests as well as purchase some signs to better advertise who we are and promote our Flag Day purpose. Also next year, a more concerted effort will be made to recruit more volunteers so that flags can be distributed at more than one intersection. Bob Colie, Chairman

Bob Colie leads in saying

the Pledge of Allegiance

Scouts from Troop 316, Major Dukes & Jasper

Kimbrough prepare for the retirement ceremony

Major Dukes begins by

cutting the first stripe

Tommy Meads says a prayer

with Bill Lewis to his right Scout Master Heather

Kennerson explains what each

stripe & field of blue mean as

the first flag is retired

First stripe: In honor of the

thirteen original colonies and

our forefathers who founded

this great nation, we salute you.

Second stripe: To the men who

died in the War for Independ-

ence, we salute you.

Third

stripe: To

those men

who fell in

the War of

1812, to

preserve

our free-

dom, we

salute you.

Fourth

stripe: To

the brave

soldiers on

both sides,

The North

and The

South, in

the Civil

War, we

salute you.

Fifth stripe: We

retire this stripe

in memory of

those who shed

their blood in

the name of

hope and free-

dom in The

Great War, we

salute you.

Alex Davidson

Tommy Meads Marion Freeman

Bob Colie

P A G E 1 0

Humber Ingram

Joe Schneider Nate Redell

Barry Bishop Bill Lewis

Dave Zimmer

Flag

Retirement

Ceremony

Continued

Sixth stripe: For our fathers and

sons who died in the terrible battles

of World War Two, Pearl Harbor,

Anzio, Midway, The Bulge, Iwo Jima,

Guadalcanal, Normandy and Berlin,

we salute you.

Seventh stripe: To the men of the

First Marine Division, who, in a

rear guard action at the Chosin

Reservoir in Korea saved their

battlalion and the lives of their

brother Marines, we salute you.

Eight stripe: For the brave men

and women of our armed forces

who died on the fields of fire in

Vietnam and whose names will

live on forever on that hallowed

wall, we salute you.

Eleventh stripe: To God, our

parents and our families who

we love and respect, we salute

you.

Tenth stripe: For the Boy

Scouts of America and all the

Scouts who have gone before

us, we salute you.

Ninth stripe: For our com-

mander in chief, who leads our

nation in good times, and bad,

we salute you.

Jamie Reynolds John White

Twelfth stripe: To the men and

women of our armed forces, the Ar-

senal of Democracy and the Hammer

of Freedom, we salute you.

Thirteenth stripe: And last, to freedom,

because without freedom there is no

honor, without honor, we are not Amer-

icans, and on this we vow, that as long

as this flag flies, we salute you.

Dan Jones plays taps as the

ceremony concludes Blue Field: “And last we retire this blue field upon which

are the fifty stars that represent the states of the greatest

nation that God in his wisdom put upon this earth we don

this with honor, dignity, and respect.”

Dan Jones deposits

the field of blue