Mighty Eighth Museum plants 26,000 flags for new Memorial Day event
At the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler, 26,000 48-star American flags stand, row by row, to honor the fallen for Memorial Day. Each of them, placed in the Memorial Garden and Chapel behind the museum for Memorial Day weekend, represents a life of a Mighty Eighth Air Force member lost in aerial combat in the European theater of World War II. This is the inaugural year for the Flags for the Fallen event, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Mighty Eighth Museum. Retired Army Col. Brent Bracewell led the project team consisting of Gregory Kindred, Roger Stradle...
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