The Delaware Valley Vietnam Veterans held the 31st annual Flag Memorial over the weekend.
On Friday, more than 200 volunteers came to the Falls Township Community Park and spent just under three hours planting more than 65,000 flags in memory of lives lost during the Vietnam War and the conflicts that followed.
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According to Donnie Jones, an representative for Delaware Valley Vietnam Veterans and organizer of the event, the Flag Memorial is important because it helps to raise awareness for Flag Day, which is this Tuesday.
“I can’t thank the volunteers enough,” Jones said.
Keeping the memorial going is one of the main reasons that the event continues, organizers said.
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“We owe it to these guys to keep it going,” veterans and organizer Dave Pearl said. Under the Korean war memorial piece of the event, is a flag and picture of Pearl’s father, George Bergner, who served the military in Korea.
The annual Flag Memorial started more than a dozen years ago at Silver Lake Park in Bristol has since moved to the park in Falls. Every year, more than a thousand people visit the impressive display that honored military men and women who have served.
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The memorial featured a candle that volunteers lit Friday and will continue to burn until clean up on Sunday. It represents all those who have given their lives in service.
