Group prepares for Flag Day

With an eye toward honoring Flag Day on June 14, the members of the Washington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) discussed their plans for the event during their monthly meeting on June 1 at Halcyon House.

The chapter did decide to hang reproductions of early Revolutionary flags on a clothesline near the Alexander Young log cabin in Sunset Park. Members also agreed to open the cabin for a few hours that day. They agreed to meet at the cabin at 8 a.m. to clean. Members were asked to bring a broom and rags.

Prior to the discussion, Marj Lins updated the chapter on the electrical work being done at the cabin. The project is not complete.

Member Julie Mangold presented the program on ?Flags of Our Fathers,? which is about the flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Her father, who flew on a B-29 in the Pacific, wrote about Iwo Jima in his World War II letters and diary.

Mangold held up a book about the flag-raising written by James Bradley. He is the son of one of the Marines pictured in the famous flag-raising photo. The book details information about the six men who raised the flag, which was the second flag- raising of the day. She said three of the men were killed in action. The survivors were flown to Washington, D.C., to spearhead a war bond drive using the image.

The DAR is a national society that promotes historic preservation, patriotism and securing America?s future through better education.