Buckeye Career Center students make boxes for veterans' burial flags
NEW PHILADELPHIA Construction students at Buckeye Career Center are building boxes to hold the flags that cover veterans' caskets at their burials. The project serves two purposes: it gives the juniors the opportunity to serve the community, and it gives veterans' survivors a way to display the flags. "Many times these flags get shoved in a closet. The flag boxes can cost over $100 and are hard to find," said Debra Cook, director of the Tuscarawas County Veterans Service Office. All veterans who are honorably discharged are eligible for a flag when they die, Cook said. The triangular boxes ...
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