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Flags Burned During
Ceremony at 4th of July Festival
Press
Release
June 26, 2008 – Southport,
North Carolina (NC) - The
appropriate reverence and protocol will be followed as our nation’s
flags are properly retired during the
N.C. 4th
of July Festival Flag Retirement Ceremony. The Ceremony,
organized by DAR Brunswick Chapter and the Boy Scouts of America
will be held at 6pm on Thursday, July 3rd at the BB&T flagpole, Howe
and Moore Streets intersection in
Southport.
Guest speaker for the event will be World War II veteran, Staff
Sergeant J. Draden Moore
Moore was stationed at Pearl
Harbor early in 1942, following the December 7, 1941 Japanese
attack. As an Army enlistee, he was assigned to the 19th Troop
Carrier Squadron and served as a radio Operator on Admiral Chester
W. Nimitz aircraft throughout the war.
Following the war, Moore, a
native of Harrisburg, PA, completed his education at the University
of California, Berkley campus. He returned east to New Jersey where
he began a career with RCA. Moore and his wife Carol retired to
Southport in 1980.
The public is encouraged to
drop off old and worn flags year round at the Southport Oak Island
Area Chamber Of Commerce Welcome Center,
4841 Long Beach Road, Southport.
These flags and any flags brought to the ceremony will be properly
retired at another time.
For a complete calendar of
festival events go to
www.nc4thofjuly.com or for more
information call the Southport-Oak Island Area Chamber of Commerce
at 910/457-6964.
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