So by far, the highlight of my 4th of July (other than spending it with my husband) was getting to watch him lead the ceremony to lower the Garrison flag. The Garrison flag is a special flag that has never been flown at Ft. Leavenworth, for some reason they chose this year to be the start of it and they flew it during the day - raising it at the morning trumpet call and lowering it during the evening trumpet call. It was MASSIVE!!!!! Above is a picture of it flying in front of the Lewis and Clark building, this is the college for all the officers. The ceremony was supposed to be well-attended by a bunch of Post dignitaries, but it wasnt. That's ok, it was still really cool. This is when it was being lowered. Charles led the team, gave the commands, and folded the flag:
That's him at the beginning of the line standing in the middle - see, it's a BIG flag!! It took 12 people to fold and hold it.
folding...
now carrying it back to the start all folded up - it took up his entire trunk of his car when he returned it to the MP station.
cool huh?! :) I also drove around that day and took pictures of the cemetary and such, i'll post those some other time, i'm just distracting myself at work and thought i'd post these.
4 comments:
What is a "garrison" flag? Is it the size? What determines whether or not a garrison flag will be flown?
Very cool - quite the honor!
Ms. Nichols,
Below is a website I found explaining something about a Garrison flag, I don't know how the information relates to our flag in Leavenworth, but I suppose the idea could be similar.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/fomc/pdffiles/flag.pdf
I do know that the "Garrison" is one of the upper levels of command on a military base, so the "Garrison flag" is a flag belonging to the big cheeses on post.
that's one huge flag.
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