FLAGS FOR HEROES

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This Memorial Day weekend, starting May 23, 2020, the Rotary Club of Ashburn is conducting their Flags for Heroes. American Legion Post 2001 has been invited to participate. This event is to remember those who made a difference and honor their military service, sacrifice and devotion to our country, as well as our first responders and health care workers .

They will place 100 USA flags at the south side of Route 7, near One Loudoun plaza. The flags will remain 23 May through 7 June, 2020. In remembrance, each flag can be sponsored to remember a hero for $50 and the written medallion of the heroe’s name and sponsor will be placed on the flag pole. Please click on the Rotary Club’s site link for more information:  http://ashburnflagsforheroes.org/. Please fill out the sponsor and hero information and pay or write a check and mail to:

RCOA Foundation PO BOX 392

Ashburn, VA 20146

Write your check out to the Rotary Club of VA Foundation. Your contributions are tax deductible.

Events Timeline

*Please contact Comrade Richard Ryan if you want to participate in any of these.

Thursday, May 21 (9-11AM)   Set up three Ashburn Rotary Banners and a separate banner to support local nurses/workers/teachers etc. on site along Route 7. Post volunteers will set up our Post banner as well.

Saturday, May 23 (10-12PM)  Erect all 100 Flags on site. Sleeves are already in the ground. Drone video from a Club member and Ashburn Boy Scouts. Mission BBQ Lunch!

Main Event Monday, May 25 (10AM)  Memorial Day Ceremony. The details of how this ceremony will unfold are still being worked out. Envisioned is a FB Live event with the reading of the names with a small amount of personnel on site, in accordance with the Virginia Governors order. Our Post has considered having members interested in participating, being nearby within the guidelines of safety and social distancing. The plan may be adjusted as circumstances permit.

Many of us participated last year and it was a very special ceremony. If you have any questions, give Richard Ryan a call at 202-258-4109.

Century of Service

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New illustrated history of The American Legion available

  • BY: The American Legion
  • Oct 14, 2019

The anchor feature is the story of newly chartered Shawna Morrison Collegiate Post 2019 on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, named for a soldier who was killed in a 2004 ambush in Iraq, whose spirit inspires a new generation of student-veteran Legionnaires. Running parallel to Morrison’s story is an exploration of The American Legion’s founding values and figures, specifically the principle that a veteran is a veteran, regardless of rank at discharge, gender, race, education level or economic status.

Bridging sections on the pillar interests of The American Legion – care for veterans, Americanism, national security, youth and disaster relief, for instance – are sections that go into the origins of the Legion cap, the organization’s place in popular culture, places named for The American Legion and more.

The bookazine – in high-quality, heavy stock paper – is the second in an American Legion 100th Anniversary Observance Committee series. “Century of Service” and “Indivisible: The Story of Our Flag” may be purchased together at the discounted price of $15.90, plus shipping.

Order online www.Emblem.Legion.org.