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Oglesby Elks Lodge #2360 perform a Flag Day ritual · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oglesby Elk's Lodge Number twenty three sixty perform a Flag
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  Speaker 1: Day ritual written by Tom Collins. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: To celebrate the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, Oglesby
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  Speaker 1: Elk's Lodge Number twenty three sixty performed a Flag Day
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  Speaker 1: ritual at the Illinois Veterans Home at LaSalle for about
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  Speaker 1: fifty veterans, staff and guests on June thirteenth. The ceremony
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  Speaker 1: presented the history of the American flag, starting with the
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  Speaker 1: pine Tree flag carried at Bunker Hill to the present
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  Speaker 1: flag of fifty stars and thirteen stripes. In all, eight
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  Speaker 1: different flags are paraded by Elk's Lodge members to patriotic music,
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  Speaker 1: with the history of each flag narrated. Oglesby elks Exalted
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  Speaker 1: Ruler Lee Thompson officiated at the ceremony, with the history
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  Speaker 1: of the flags presented by Elk's past Exalted Ruler Ken Fisek,
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  Speaker 1: and the meaning of the flag presented by Elk's and
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  Speaker 1: American Legion member Jim Ebner. Flag bearers included ELK members
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  Speaker 1: Greg McDermott, Junior Metcalf, Holly Anderson, Sarah Metcalf, Lynn Schlink,
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  Speaker 1: Pam Coffee, Nick nos Alek, and Gary Ferrari. The ceremony
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  Speaker 1: is mandated by the Elk's Grand Lodge to honor the
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  Speaker 1: history of our flag and is especially significant during the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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  Speaker 1: Elks are committed to never forgetting to honor our country
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  Speaker 1: and those who have served