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Veterans honored on Flag Day

Centennial Citizen - 6/22/2017

Flag Day passes without notice for most, but honoring the sacrifices of people who fought for it was the order of the day at the Highline Place Memory Care home in Littleton on June 14. Members of Rising 6, a community outreach group composed of airmen from Buckley Air Force Base, performed a flag-retiring ceremony for the home's resident veterans. As a dozen veterans watched from the veranda, a flag in the home's courtyard was lowered, folded and presented to Dr. Robert Baird, who served in the Army in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. A new flag was raised in its place, the airmen gave commemorative military coins to the assembled vets, and the solemnity faded to easy friendship as the airmen settled in for lunch with their predecessors.