The John Milledge Chapter of the Georgia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution may be a long name for a club, but its list of community activities is longer, as is the list of historical significance the club seeks to bring to remembrance through its work.
The Sons of the American Revolution is composed of members who can trace an ancestor or who supported the cause of freedom back to the time of the American Revolution. Locally, SAR has dedicated markers to former members and has most recently awarded certificates to two local institutions for the proper display of the U.S. flag.
“We try to recognize businesses, institutions and individuals who exhibit the flag properly,” local chapter president James Mills said. “The purpose is to help people by example to know how to properly exhibit the flag.”
Thursday, the group will again make a presentation, this time to the Morris-Little American Legion Post 6.
Mills shared Flag Day protocol with The Union-Recorder and offered some little known facts about the display of the flag.
In addition to flag etiquette, the group presides over the dedication of markers at the graves of its deceased members, or patriots. In the past few months, the group has placed two markers at graves in Memory Hill Cemetery in honor of former members Jimmy Moore and Joseph Baugh. The ceremonies are held graveside and include tributes to the departed with a military presence provided by Georgia Military College. The markers are placed, Mills said, to mark for as long as possible for history’ sake, the resting place of a member of the group.
For more information or to receive assistance retiring a U.S. flag, contact Mills or the SAR flag chairman Bobby Mercer.
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