Collin County Veterans Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cAt 3 o\u2019clock, Congressman Pat Fallon has his congressional awards ceremony out here. I believe he has 20 recipients that he will be giving this award to,\u201d said event co-chair Lisa Bloomer. \u201cAfter that, we\u2019re going to let the veterans find their tags out here in the field. All the recipients\u2019 tags will be out here. They\u2019ll find those, take pictures, have a celebratory cake ceremony, and then we\u2019ll retire the colors, and we have a retired bugler who will play taps for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s display includes 64 new flags honoring Medal of Honor recipients from Texas. QR codes on the flags link to each recipient\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
Veteran Brent Allen and his mother drove in from Arlington to view the tribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s amazing,\u201d Allen said. \u201cI think it\u2019s an important part of our culture that we recognize veterans. I currently work at the Dallas VA Hospital, so I\u2019m around veterans all day, and it\u2019s an honor to work there.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Sullivan, who launched the event nine years ago, the Flags of Honor program is deeply personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a Vietnam vet, and when I came home, I didn\u2019t have flags waving. They didn\u2019t wave until probably Desert Storm, whenever people realized what they had done to the Vietnam vets,\u201d he said. \u201cFor me personally, I do this to teach the next generation how important it is to honor the veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Plano East Rotary Club<\/a> continues to seek volunteers to help expand the event each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas cities are making final preparations for Veterans Day on Tuesday, with several events across the Dallas-Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-44214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}