Bethlehem Lutheran Church is marking Memorial Day by surrounding its building with 1,200 flags to honor fallen service members.<\/p>\n
Each flag represents about 1,000 American casualties in conflicts dating back to the Revolutionary War. The church officially opened the flag display today at 2 p.m., holding a ceremony that paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives to protect freedom.<\/p>\n
Pastor Hileman, a combat-wounded Marine Corps veteran of Afghanistan, said the display is also meant to educate students about the meaning of the holiday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in the Marine Corps myself combat wounded in Afghanistan. And one of the things I noticed is that a lot of people confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day. So for us as a church in a school one of our opportunities to educate the kids here is that difference,\u201d Hileman said.<\/p>\n
The flags will remain up throughout the Memorial Day weekend for anyone who would like to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Lutheran Church is marking Memorial Day by surrounding its building with 1,200 flags to honor fallen service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-200257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}