Flags of Honor
Posted 6/15/21
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Flags of Honor
FINISHING TOUCHES — Organizer Leslie Grogan puts a tag on one of the 500 flags that stand in front of the static B-52 Bomber display on the Griffiss Business and Technology Park as Rome Free Academy JROTC teacher and retired Air Force MSgt. Della Pray assists. Volunteers laid out a grid for the flags on Friday and finished up their efforts on Saturday. The New York State Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund along with the RFA JROTC cadets partnered to bring the Flags of Honor to Rome. Area individuals, businesses and groups sponsored flags for $35 each, honoring those they consider a hero.
(Sentinel photo by John Clifford)
FLAGS OF HONOR — Some of the 500 flags stand in the foreground, behind a sign outlining the project, a fundraiser for the New York State Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc., watched over by the static B-52 Bomber display on the Griffiss Business and Technology Park. All funds raised by the project — primarily through sponsorships of flags — will go to the fund.
(Sentinel photos by John Clifford)
ENJOYING THE PATRIOTIC SIGHT — Joan O’Brien and her husband, Eddie, both of Florida, admire the flag display on Griffiss Park on Saturday.
TEAM PHOTO — Volunteers responsible for putting out the more than 500 American flags that comprise the Flags of Honor display in front of the B-52 bomber pose for a group photo after their efforts in the heat and sunshine.
(Sentinel photo by John Clifford)
OVERVIEW — Organizers of theFlags of Honor display on the Griffiss Business and Technology Park got a jump on flag day, as more than 500 flags wave gently in the breeze on Saturday. Flag Day is celebrated across the United States on June 14 each year, commemorating the adoption of the flag of the U.S. on June 14, 1777, by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
(Sentinel photo by John Clifford)
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