The flag display will start to be set up at 9 a.m. Friday. During Saturday s continued work, musical concerts will be held beginning at noon at the park.
On Sunday at noon, a motorcycle run will form at the Benjamin Franklin School, 6401 Mill Creek Road in Levittown, and process to the park for the 1 p.m. commemoration. Following the ceremony, volunteers will be needed to help take the flags down Sunday.
Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is a former Falls Township supervisor, said that he was always extremely proud to host the DV3 Flag Memorial in Falls Township. Our community park is an ideal location and our Park and Rec staff, along with our Public Works (employees) and police were honored to do their part to assist, he said.
Jesse Hill never forgot the reception he got after he returned from serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
“It still hurts,” said the Middletown resident in 2015. “Most of us were volunteers and to come home and be spit on.”
Hill spent decades making sure no other returning U.S. Army veteran ever again experienced the same kind of disrespect.
Hill, 72, who died April 28, founded the Bristol Township based Delaware Valley Vietnam Veterans and served as its treasurer for more than 30 years.
He was the organizing force for annual Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day events to remember those killed or missing-in-action during the Vietnam War. He helped volunteers plant more than 60,000 American flags each year at the annual Flag Day memorial in June.