Promoting Old Glory - Jonesville Post 195
By Mark
Sutton, PR Director
Like any
Post that wants to be active, the Post must decide what they will be active
with. The American Legion has over 20
different programs under the 4 founding pillars that a post can promote and
actively work. The Boyce-Bunce-Carpenter
Post 195 in Jonesville, Michigan actively promotes “Old Glory”, the Stars and
Stripes of our great country. They do
this in 2 ways.
The first
way they do this is by promoting and selling flags through the American Legion
Emblem Sales Flag reward program. In
2013, this post ranked 9th in the entire country for “Flag Rewards”
and number 1 in Michigan. Selling
through the Flag Rewards program earns the post credits they can use at Emblem
sales. To learn more about Flag rewards
visit http://emblem.legion.org and click Flag Rewards on the left side at the bottom.
The
second way they promote is through the proper disposal of US Flags during their
Flag Day ceremonies. When you sell
several flags, you receive old flags to dispose of properly.
At a spring
meeting the commander told the group that one of our fire pits needed to be
replaced. One of the members said "why don't we go out to NEFCO
Metals Sales & Service, and see if they could make us one?”.
Steve
Harding, the owner of NEFCO, was happy to help and his creative workers and staff
put together 2 fire pits (see picture) for the Post to use at their
ceremonies. “I just wanted to give
something back to those who served" Mr. Harding said. The Post now has 2 custom pits to use on Flag
Day.
The pits
were used at the Posts 2014 Flag Day event at “Freedom Memorial” park in
Jonesville this past June. They retired
100 flags that day. Proper flag etiquette is important to the fabric of America
and Post 195 is doing what it can to remind the community just how important it
is.
The American Legion Department of Michigan represents over 70,000 members in the State of Michigan. The American Legion was founded in 1919, based on “The Four Pillars”; veteran rehabilitation, Americanism, child welfare, and national security and continued above all its mission as a consumers’ advocate for veterans. For more information contact the Michigan Legion at 517-371-4720 ext 16, mark@michiganlegion.org, or visit our website at www.michiganlegion.org.
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