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