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Monday, November 24, 2014

Carol Canales Fulfills Her Dream to Present Pocket Flags to Servicemen and Women while Traveling...


Carol Canales,Honorary Past State President of 1812 has always wanted to be able to present these tiny pocket flags to men and women she would meet at a variety of events or at the airport when she was traveling. 





Lisa English, the guest speaker for the 1812 June meeting gave a hands on flag making workshop on folding  fabric that Bonnie Becmer most generously donated for this project, so that everyone had the opportunity to make several of these flags. The little flag is put in a tiny plastic bag with a poem.
 A flag for your pocket so you can always carry a little piece of home. We are praying for you and we are proud of you. Thank you for defending our country and our freedom

Carol Canales presented Capt. Thomas Woehler with a pocket flag.
Carol Canales was fortunate to meet this group of young men and women on 11/21/2014 in the Charlotte airport. They are all graduates from Fort Jackson going to Fort Sill, OK for AIT. Top picture from left to right (PVT E-1 Castaneda, PVT. E-1 Chithauong, PVT. E-1 Gregoire, Carol Canales, PVT. E-1 Sutton and PVT. 2 E2 D'Angelo.  Second pic from the top - PVT. E-1 Shanks and Carol Canales.  Bottom two pics (left to right) PVT. E-1 Kenneth Wagner, Carol Canales and PVT. E-1 Charles Westerfield. I treated these two with their favorite Starbucks.




I presented Leo C. Wisniewski at the Alamadome pregame. He served in WW II Feb 1943-Dec 1945, ETO 22 MOS Third Army, Corp of Engineers, 4 Battle Star, Camp Swift - Imperial Dam AZ - across many countries in Europe.