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SALT LAKE CITY — With Veterans Day just around the corner, several patriotic organizations gathered to honor the memory and sacrifice of U.S. military veterans with a ceremony to unfurl an enormous flag over Snow Canyon State Park on Saturday. This is the second time such an event has been held in the park.
The organizations involved included Follow The Flag Southern Utah in collaboration with United We Pledge. They also received help from Crimson Cliffs High School, who provided a gymnasium for the flag to be housed and repaired prior to its unfurling in Snow Canyon.
The unfurling ceremony took place Saturday at 9 a.m. in the park after seamstresses helped to make minor repairs to areas of the gigantic flag on Friday. This was likely not as simple as it may sound, since the flag is over a quarter of an acre and weighs over 400 pounds, with each individual stripe stretching six feet wide.
A U.S. military veteran honored this year at the ceremony was 101-year-old Kenneth John Brown, an assistant chaplain for the Marine 5th Division of WWII, who served from 1943 until 1946 and is an Iwo Jima survivor. He was presented with a quilt by the organization Quilts of Valor.
