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Millsboro Veterans Cemetery hosts Flag Day ceremony

Empty chair for POWs/MIAs unveiled
June 26, 2017

It was noticeably windy for those watching the many American flags fly at the Millsboro Veterans Memorial Cemetery’s Flag Day celebration.

“We are that first star on the flag, and we are a state that gave birth to a nation,” said Sen. Brian Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown, referring to Delaware during a Flag Day ceremony held at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Millsboro.

“Everybody that’s here in Delaware, thats a native Delawarean or that’s here in Delaware now should feel an immense amount of pride about the leadership that Delaware showed in those early days of our republic,” Pettyjohn said.

An empty chair, symbolic of the 92,000 unaccounted for American soldiers, was unveiled at the cemetery. Members of Rolling Thunder, a motorcycle club that advocates for veterans, were present and displayed their support by bearing the stars and stripes during the ceremony.

Larence Kirby, executive director of Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs, closed the ceremony asking everyone to “take a moment to think of a veteran and think of what that veterans means to you.”

 

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