NORTH WILDWOOD – Fifty veteran flags will be unfurled on the North Wildwood Seawall at the Flags of Liberty – Veteran Awareness Benefit, which will be held June 30 at 5:30 a.m. at the Lou Booth Amphitheater.
According to a release, the event is expected to draw several hundred people to honor veterans and give them a voice from beyond in helping to bring attention to the needs of veterans. Flags of Liberty was organized by Sunrise On Sunday Founder and Officiant, Deb Moore, and its supporters, who have been preparing for the event for over one year.
The public is invited to participate in the sunrise ceremony June 30, which begins at 5:30 a.m., the protocol for raising the American flag. The MC (master of ceremonies) will be Moore, and there will be a brief address by guest speakers Mayor Patrick Rosenello and Vincent Kane, Jr., director, Wilmington VA Medical Center.
The Kane family will be unfurling the veteran flag of Vincent Kane, Sr., Army, ex-prisoner of war in World War II, who died in May 2019. Scouts from Troop 389, chartered by the Atlantic Christian School, will lead the seawall procession with the POW/MIA flag.
Centenarian James Neill, veteran, World War II, originally from North Wildwood, was named the Flags of Liberty Honorary Ambassador, and will be escorted to the event courtesy of TD Limousine.
The seawall procession and national anthem will be led by the Emerald Society Honor Guard and Bagpipes by the Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 83. Singers from the Christ Gospel Love Center will be leading the national anthem during the raising of the flag and “God Bless America” during the unfurling of the 50 veteran flags on the Seawall of Honor.
For more information on Flags of Liberty and a complete list of Sunrise On Sunday – Veteran Flag Ceremonies, visit www.SunriseOnSunday.com, Facebook: SunriseOnSunday, Instagram: #SunriseOnSunday or contact 610-823-7879.
Avalon – It absolutely makes sense for means testing for Social Security. We need to trim benefits for anyone 50 or younger, and give them better savings options. Anyone 50 or older should be grandfathered….
