One change, this year, is that local Boy Scouts will not conduct a retirement ceremony for American flags that have become soiled or torn. Instead, local Scouts will serve as the color guard for the ceremony.
Mayor Charles Mizell will deliver the official welcome to the observance and local attorney John Gallaspy will recite "In Flanders Fields," perhaps the best known of all poems relating to war.
The ceremony will be closed with the playing of "Taps" and the firing of a 21-gun salute by the honor guard of Magic City Post 24 of the American Legion.
The observance ceremony is open to the public and persons planning to attend are reminded of the need to bring a chair.
(Published first at http://www.wpnewsblog.com)
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