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From: Dora Smith <>
Subject: Do they do flag holders on vets grave in Texas, do they get them from VA like in PA?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 07:37:45 -0700 (PDT)

I tried calling a couple of local offices where I
live, in Austin, Texas, since as a couple of
people have suggested, surely people in these
offices near where I live ought to be able to
identify my flag holder that is on my great
grandfather's grave in Arlington Cemetery, Upper
Darby township, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia -
and atleast to tell me whether the insignia is or
is not a Ruptured Duck, ca WWII.

Now, I've talked to people at the VA offices for
Delaware and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania,
and to people with teh VFW in Delaware and
Philadelphia counties, and with the VFW office in
Washington, DC, adn ALL of these people told me
that local veterans posts of various sorts,
particularly the VFW and the American Legion,
order flag holders with various designs and
insignia for different wars, etc., from the local
VA office for placing on Veterans' graves. The
VA offices even told me that if families want to
put these veterans flag holders on graves, tehy
have to prove the person in the grave was a
veteran. The guy in the VFW office in
Washington, someone named Neeves, I think, was
going to look in his catalog of flag holders for
me when he got a chance! (Either he didn't find
it or he didn't get a chance and is now out of
town for two weeks - an danyhow, he can't see my
photo.)

OK, I've called both the VA office in Austin,
Texas, which is a district office, and the
regional VFW office in Austin - and the people in
both of these offices haven't a clue what I'm
talking about, the VA office here claims they
don't order any flag holders, they don't know
what a flag holder is, and all these groups put
on veterans' graves in Austin is flowers. No
flag holders, and no flags.

It turned out the person I was talking to at the
VFW office was the graphic artist, so I asked to
talk to someone else, and she didn't know what I
was talking about either. Someone is supposed to
call me back when he gets back from errands, and
the director is away at a convention.

At the VA office, I thought, probably the person
I am talking to is a complete idiot, but her
supervisor didn't know anything about it, either,
never heard of a flag holder before, and tried to
be helpful - he's doing some checking around and
to call me back.

How can they do a national program in the
Philadelphia area and know all about it at the
national level in Washington, an dnot do it in
Austin? Do they actually do flag holders here?
If so, how does who get them? Obviously, it is
who really is in charge of ordering them who
would be most likely to be able to identifiy my
flag holder.

Yours,
Dora Smith

Yours,
Dora Smith


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