What better way to honor a veteran than with a flag flying high on Memorial Day and Veterans Day courtesy of IOP Exchange Club’s Flags for Heroes program. You can have a flag waving in their honor with a tag showing their name, rank and other info. On Veterans Day and Memorial Day, the IOP Exchange Club showcases a breathtaking display of hundreds of American flags at Towne Center and the Exchange Club. Flags for Heroes is a way to say thank you to our fallen veterans and their families for their ultimate sacrifice and to our other veterans who have served our country here at home and abroad.
The Americanism Committee has now offered this opportunity to honor our veterans for one year starting on Memorial Day. The IOP Exchange Club has received many stories from contributors to this fundraiser of flags that have been erected and pictures taken with their family in front of the flag(s) proudly sharing this opportunity to honor a father, mother, sibling or a friend. One such contributor recounted his experience of bringing his family to the Flags for Heroes site and described it as the highlight of their vacation on Isle of Palms. The IOP Exchange is not only honoring individual veterans, but those families to whom they mean so much. Thank you IOP Exchange Club for making this time of remembrance and commemoration available to our veterans’ families.
The IOP Exchange Club’s Americanism Committee has been very active this year, providing over $25,000 in donations to veterans’ organizations, including the Charleston Fisher House, Tri-County Veterans Support Network, Vantage Point Foundation, Growing Minds Farm, She’s The Veteran and the VA Medical Center, to name a few.
To increase their support of Charleston and Berkeley County veterans and their families, the Americanism Committee hopes that you will join them in advocating for veterans throughout the year by sponsoring a flag(s) for the 2024 Memorial Day “Flag Flying High” display at the IOP Exchange Club May 22-28 or the Veterans Day display Nov. 3-16.
Go to iopflagsforheroes.com to get a sponsor form or to become a bronze, silver or gold sponsor
By Robbie Berg
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