May 24, 2026 - Flags should be at half staff from sunup tomorrow, May 25, 2026, (Memorial Day) until 12-noon.

If you can't have them lowered in the morning go ahead and lower tonight.

Master Sergeant Roy V. Duncan
United States Army Air Forces - World War II – Died in Service
60 Bomb Squadron – 39 Bomb Group – 20 Air Force
©By Larry Hume, VFW Post 8904, Center, Texas
 

April 27, 2026 - Loyalty Day originally began as "Americanization Day" in 1921 as a counter to the Communists’ May 1st celebration of the Russian Revolution. On May 1, 1930, 10,000 VFW members staged a rally at New York’s Union Square to promote patriotism. May 1 then evolved into Loyalty Day and the first official observance of the day was in 1959 after the signing of Public Law 85-529 on July 18, 1958.

Private Louis Franklin
United States Army, World War I – Died Non-battle
Company C, 332 Labor Battalion

March 17, 2026 - Americans consider themselves to be compassionate people, and the United States military has a long tradition of humanitarian relief operations both within and outside the continental United States. Never has this humanitarian impulse proven more dangerous to follow than in 1992 when the United States intervened to arrest famine in the midst of an ongoing civil war in the East African country of Somalia.