NATIONAL FLAG FOR FALLEN WARRIORS UNVEILED

New Emblem Will Serve to Honor and Remember the Sacrifice of Military Service Men and Women Who Died in Service

CHESAPEAKE, Virginia — A flag that commemorates military men and women who died in service to their country is the subject of a petition to the Department of Defense and United States Congress for national recognition. Honor and Remember Inc., a Chesapeake-based non-profit organization, is circulating a petition to have the “Honor and Remember Flag�� officially sanctioned as a national flag. The new emblem would fill a void in the officially recognized assemblage of American symbols.

“The idea for the Honor and Remember Flag was the result of losing my own son in the Iraq War,�� said Lutz. “Tony was killed by a sniper in December 2005, while he was on patrol in Fallujah. Our family went through all of the stages that follow such a tragedy: shock, grief , numbness and acceptance. But as I visited other families who lost young people in the war and as I attended the funerals of other fallen service men and women, it occurred to me that there was no lasting, tangible symbol that these families could use to honor their lost loved one. There are two things that parents long for when they lose a child this way. First, they want their child’s death not to have been in vain and secondly, they want their child’s sacrifice to be remembered.

petition
http://www.honorandremember.org/

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Signed. Lost a Nephew 26 Oct 2006 Joseph Phillip Smith. Cochise security

For anyone interestd these flags are available for purchase at the site above

Perhaps we should make the flag global for families who have lost any son or daughter in conflict?

John R...