Retiring the Flag!

On Sunday we had a flag ceremony for our neighbor who has just returned home from Iraq. It's was a really neat experience to see the scouts participate in and of course great for all patriots! For those who are not familiar with this story when our neighbor left last year for Iraq we had a flag ceremony for him. We raised, and flew a flag as well as the yellow flag the entire time he was gone. Now that he is home, both flags are retired. The United States flag goes to the Marine and the yellow flag goes to his wife. Justin was chosen to give the yellow flag to his wife.

Chris (the Marine) briefly talked of his experience there in Iraq and told us how much evil he saw there, and just coming home to the United States again how many good things are happening here. It just makes you really appreciate what a wonderful country we live in, and how lucky we are to be here and enjoying the freedom that we have.