{"id":6154,"date":"2025-05-24T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T17:12:57","slug":"flags-for-heroes-are-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/flags-for-heroes-are-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags for Heroes Are Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_6155\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/flags-for-heroes-are-up\/flags-derby-013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6155\" class=\"wp-image-6155\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Derby-013-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Flags for Heroes - Derby 2025 Group Shot\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Derby-013-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Derby-013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Derby-013-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Derby-013.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derby volunteers are shown by the 9\/11 monument on the historic Birmingham Green in Derby.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_6156\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/flags-for-heroes-are-up\/flags-shelton-2025-033\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6156\" class=\"wp-image-6156\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Shelton-2025-033-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Flags for Heroes 2025 Shelton - group\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Shelton-2025-033-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Shelton-2025-033-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Shelton-2025-033-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Shelton-2025-033.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These volunteers installed all the flags at Veterans Memorial Flag and the Shelton Riverwalk.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Rotarians, Interact members from Derby and Shelton High Schools and other community volunteers have installed all the flags for the Flags for Heroes program in time for Memorial Day. The flags will stay up through a special service to be held at Veterans Park in Shelton on June 14th at 11:00. That ceremony will include the reading of the names of all those being honored with flags this year. Each flag allows people to celebrate and honor the heroes in their lives by sponsoring a flag in their name at a heartfelt and inspiring event. This unique initiative recognizes individuals who have made a meaningful impact\u2014whether they are heroes of the past or present.\u00a0Each hero\u2019s name is featured on a personalized medallion, which is affixed to a full-size American flag.<\/p>\n<p>These flags will be prominently displayed at Shelton Veteran Memorial Park for Shelton honorees and on the historic Birmingham Green in Derby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/flags-for-heroes-are-up\/flags-medallion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6157\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Medallion-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Medallion for Flags for Heroes\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Medallion-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flags-Medallion.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click on each of the links below to see the listing of those being honored:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-Derby-Names.pdf\">Derby<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-Shelton-Names.pdf\">Shelton<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotarians, Interact members from Derby and Shelton High Schools and other community volunteers have installed all the flags for the Flags for Heroes program in time for Memorial Day. The flags will stay up through a special service to be held at Veterans Park in Shelton on June 14th at 11:00. That ceremony will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}