Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum hosts inaugural Flags for the Fallen Share Updated: 6:20 PM EDT May 27, 2021 Share Updated: 6:20 PM EDT May 27, 2021
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Show Transcript HE FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES .. INCLUDING PEEPING TOM. N EW AT 6 A TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEMORIAL GARDEN AT THE MIGHTY 8TH AIR FORCE MUSEUM. OUR DAVE WILLIAMS WALKS US THROUGH THE CHANGES (COL. (RET.) BRENT BRACEWELL- TRUSTEE, MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE MUSEUM) IT S STILL HARD TO IMAGINE WHEN YOU SEE ALL OF THE FLAGS, THEY REPRESENT A LIFE, AVERAGE AGE WAS 22 AND THAT REPRESENTS A LIFE CUT SHORT. (JOHN LUCKY LUCKADOO-MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE VERATEN) EACH ONE OF THOSE FLAGS REPRESENT A LIFE, A LIFE THAT WAS SACRIFICED TO PRESERVE THE FREEDOMS AND THE VALUES THAT WE CHERISH. 99-YEAR-D OLJOHN LUCKY LUCKADOO WAS ONE OF FOUR VETERANS OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY, EACH OF TH EM GETTING THE CHCEAN TO PLANT ONE OF THOSE FLAGS INTO THE GROUND. (LU
At the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler, 26,000 48-star American flags stand, row by row, to honor the fallen for Memorial Day.
Each of them, placed in the Memorial Garden and Chapel behind the museum for Memorial Day weekend, represents a life of a Mighty Eighth Air Force member lost in aerial combat in the European theater of World War II.
This is the inaugural year for the Flags for the Fallen event, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Mighty Eighth Museum.
Retired Army Col. Brent Bracewell led the project team consisting of Gregory Kindred, Roger Stradley and Jane Grismer that put the event together.