2022 Murrieta Field of Honor

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How to Buy a Flag, and Why

The flags on the Field of Honor have a two-fold purpose. One is to honor our personal heroes and the other is to raise funds for community service projects funded by the Murrieta Rotary Founda tion.

Each flag has meaning. It tells a story of a person who is special, inspirational and memorable to someone else. The flag stands for all the admiration that special person deserves in the mind of his or her champion. They are bought to honor military personnel, first responders, and others who have made an impact in a person’s life.

The funds generated by the flag sales are used to support the many avenues of service the Murrieta Rotary conducts throughout the year. This includes thousands of dollars in scholarships, teacher grants, youth proj ects, international projects like clean water, Special Needs dance, music and speech contests, and many more. At least $50,000 is put back into our local economy every year by benefitting these many projects.

Buying a flag is easy. You can purchase in person any day the Field is open; purchase online any day or night; or purchase from one of our affiliates (who then earn dollars for their own projects). Check out Murri etaRotaryClub.org, or visit us at the Field and honor your hero.

Honor

Field is open every day, November 5-12, from 9:00 to 5:00

Schedule of Events

Saturday, November 5

7 am to 10 am--Set up Field

9 am to 4 pm--Vollbrecht Chalk Walk 10 am--Opening Ceremonies Begin 10 am-2 pm Veteran Resource Expo

Sunday, November 6 9am to 4 pm--Vollbrecht Chalk Walk

Monday, November 7 12:00--Rotary Luncheon by Invitation (Free to all Veterans)

Tuesday, November 8 Field Open

Wednesday, November 9 6:00 pm--Candlelight Concert

Thursday, November 10 12:00--Marine Corps Birthday Celebration 5:00 pm--Boy Scout Flag Retirement Ceremony, “The Final Salute”

Friday, November 11 Veterans’ Day 10:00 am--City Parade

Saturday, November 12 9:00 am to 5:00 pm--Pick up Flags

Sunday, November 13 9:00 am to 12:00 pm--Pick up Flags Strike the Field

From the President

Welcome to the 14th annual Murrieta Field of Honor. As 202223 President of the Rotary Club of Murrieta, I am honored to invite you to enjoy this awe-inspiring event. As a new Rotary member, I was inducted at the 2011 Field of Honor. It has been a special time for me and my family every year since then.

Our Rotary Club could not have brought this event to Murrieta without the great partnerships that have been established over the years: the City of Murrieta, our sponsors many of whom have been with us since the beginning, those who purchase flags to honor their personal heroes, the volunteers who help us year after year to put up and take down the thousands of flags that grace Town Square Park and more.

Another important relationship developed over the past couple of years is one with the New Generation Rotary Club of Temecu la Valley. They are providing invaluable added muscle and mind to the Field of Honor and expanding our reach as a Southwest Riverside County community event. Welcome, New Gen!

The Murrieta Valley Unified School District has added a sig nificant presence at the Field since early in our history. Each year, fifth grade students from every elementary school come to the Field with lesson plans in hand. Here they learn about the history of our United States flag, about the service of millions of veterans in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, the events of 9/11, the flags of each state and the colorful patriotic chalk art dis play. A comprehensive education on the sacrifices and magnifi cence of our nation. Our members and others serve as docents for these visits while high school ROTC cadets help in guiding some 2,000 students during their morning visits.

By participating in the Field of Honor as a sponsor or flag sponsor, you are helping the nonprofit Murrieta Rotary Foun dation give back to our community in many ways. This in cludes scholarships for graduating seniors, both those going on to college and those headed for a career tech course. This past year, our Foundation gave over $8,000 in scholarships and teacher grants. In addition, we conduct speech and music contests for high school students, send middle and high school students to leadership camps, provide support for homeless and foster youth along teacher grants which add to their classroom activities. Looking beyond youth (who represent our future), we are starting to look into how we can contribute to a better life for our seniors.

These are just a few of the many ways we are giving back, thanks to the Field of Honor and its supporters. If you would like to know more about our club and how to get involved, please ask me or any of our members.

John Brown, 2022-23 President

Thank You for Your Support

TITLE EVENT SPONSORS

Pechanga Resort and Casino (Medal of Honor)

Riverside County 3rd District Supervisor

Securitas Security

Temecula Hyundai

HONOR LEVEL

American Pacific Mortgage JAGS Gives Back Jill Cobb, Friend of Rotary

PATRIOT LEVEL

8-Bit Brewing Co BAMM Promotional Products Corporate Events Craig and Anne Young Doreen Tate

Erickson-Hall Construction Excel Landscape Gosch Ford Kaiser Permanente Keller Williams Temecula Valley Logan Capital Advisors New Generations Rotary Palomar Health Medical Group Paradise Chevrolet Rancon Financial Sierra West Electric Southern Counties Lubricants Temecula Nissan UPPLife

STAR LEVEL

AALRR Law Office Camp Transformation/Menifee Constant Companions Coworking Connection/Impact Marketing

Cynthia Nordskog Davies Financial Advisors DCH Automotive James McMinn, Inc Glass Doctor

La Pointe Wealth Management

Loma Linda University Medical Center, Murrieta Lori Stone Madison Square Dentistry New Day Solar Pacific Premier Bank Patsy and Al Orr PKC Kuebler, APC Potamus Press

Ready to Smile Dental Group RH Benefits and Insurance RipTide Systems

Ruff & Ready Moving Solar Hero Southern California Gas Co Southwest Health Care SRCAR

The Linden Temecula Valley Buick GMC Temecula Valley Toyota/Lexus TTC4 Success

Wayne Stockmeyer

Westside Enterprise

STRIPE LEVEL

5-Star Students Abbott Vascular American Insurance Avalon Management Avidex BC Data and Power Bob and Gretchen Bryant Bowser Realty Group Clinton Keith Dentistry Curriculum Assoc/iReady Dannis Woliver Kelley Davis Family Insurance, Craig Davis Dr. Todd Bringhurst Dynamic Auto Images Edmentum

Eide Bailly, CPA’s First Community Capital Kirk Effinger Real Estate EdieBailey CPAs George and Sue Steele Hulse Photography/Dawn Layton Imagine Learning Inland Valley Cardiovascular Center Jones Realty Group

JTK International Consulting K23 Systems Law Offices of Peter Sansom Maples and Associates, CPAs Marsha and Bob Brown Mike Shirley MPK Advisors & CPA’s Murrieta Solar Power NBS Gov Platinum Wealth Management

Remembering Johnny Roberts Richie’s Diner West Coast Chiropractic

SPECIAL THANKS

Colonial Flag Foundation Jann M. Gentry Glenn Edisen ReStore

Skybox Bar and Grill Starbucks Doreen Tate Titan Tent Rentals

Richard “Dick” Lawe

When veterans of the US Marine Corps and other visitors to the Field of Honor gather on November 10, 2022, to celebrate the 247th birth day of the Corps, they can thank Murrieta Rotary Past President Dick Lawe, who brought the annual celebration to the Field.

For Dick, the 2,000-plus American flags flying in Murrieta’s Town Square Park to recognize our heroes was an experience that brought a lump in his throat and perhaps a few tears. Local veteran and businessman, Dick can’t exactly explain the strong emotions he had seeing those flags. Now retired and living near his daughter in San Diego County, Dick was an original supporter of the Field of Honor and even helped with the student visits.

Dick was just six years old in June 1942 when a taxi driver stopped in front of his home and waved a telegram at his mother, notifying the young family that their hus band and father, William C. Lawe, had been killed in the Battle of Midway. An aviation metalsmith third class (AM3c), Lawe had volunteered to fly as a gunner on the new Grumman TBF-1 (Avenger) torpedo plane. He was assigned to one of six planes that were on the Midway Atoll for readiness preparations before encountering the Japanese fleet that was expected to attack that strategic point. All six were shot down as they approached the Jap anese fleet. For his role in the battle, Lawe was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and a U.S. Navy destroyer was named after him.

With a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Naval Acad emy, Dick took a heavy dose of math and science courses in his Marin County high school before entering the acad emy. He graduated from the academy in 1958 and with some 250 of his classmates (out of a class of 900) elected to join the Marines. In 1962, he had his first assignment

in Vietnam and was back in 1967/68 and again in 1972/73. Back from one of his three tours in Vietnam flying the Douglas A-4, Dick was also experi encing the turmoil that was going on with the American public over the war. He recalls being spit on by kids while wearing his uniform off base.

Between 1973 and his retirement from the Marines in 1978, Dick served as Commanding Officer of the Camp Pendleton Air Field, which “had more take-offs and landings on a daily basis than Chicago’s O’Hare.” While there, he also went back to college and earned a teaching certificate, instructing in math and physical sciences to earn his student teaching credits. He retired as a Major.

A State Farm Insurance agent for years, Dick continued to serve in a number of community activities. He served for 15 years on the Murri eta Youth Accountability Board, which operated under the Riverside County Probation Department and oversaw kids who had minor offenses. Besides being a past president of the Murrieta Rotary Club, Dick spoke at a number of high school career days over the years.

“When I went and talked insurance, their eyes would gloss over. So, I decided to show segments from the movie, ‘Top Gun,’ and I’d tell them ‘That’s what I used to do for a living.’” Dick said. “I don’t know if it helped them stay in school but they did stay interested after that.”

Back to the Field of Honor, “It’s an emotional thing for me, a beautiful thing,” he says. “When you walk up and see all those flags, you know that it needs to be there, that people are more mindful today of what needs to be done to honor our heroes – those who have served (or are serving) in the military or in local response organizations, like police and fire, or the community to make all our lives better.”

The Field of Honor is an “Emotional, Beautiful Thing”

2022 Field of Honor Heroes

Congratulations to our 2022 Heroes, each of whom was nominated by family, friend or acquaintance.

Pedro Ledesma Castillo and Peter Edward Castillo:

World War II veteran Pedro Castillo enlisted in the US Army in August 1944 and was sent to the Philippines with the 7th Infantry which was involved in combat to liberate the country. A bullet grazed Pete in the head and he received numerous med als for his service there. He left the military in November 1946 as Private First Class. Today he lives in Hemet.

Pedro’s son, Peter Castillo, enlisted in the US Army in 1966 at 17 years old to fight in the Vietnam War and attended Airborne Training with the 1st Special Forces Group and was assigned with the 5th and 24th Infan try Divisions. With the 5th Infantry, young Pete ended up on Okinawa performing logistics functions in support of the Vietnam War. He left the Army as a Sargent E5 after a three-year stint.

Fabian “OJ” Sosa

Master Sergeant Sosa served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps for 23 years including several assign ments overseas, combat operations in Afghanistan and a tour of duty as a Drill Instructor aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. He retired in 2008 from 1st Ma rine Division with the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion aboard Camp Pendleton where he served as the Operations Chief for his unit. Following his retirement MSgt Sosa started Tactical Global Solutions Corp. (TGS), a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. TGS supports the mission of our military, law enforcement, first responders and federal agencies with equipment, logistics, services and training. TGS has 54 employees and

recruits their employees from transitioning military mem bers, retired veterans and law enforcement officers. MSgt Sosa believes in giving back to the community, his company supports organizations like the West Coast Drill Instruc tors Association, Waves Project and Warfighter Made. Those organizations support our veterans and their fam ilies. When not at work or giving back, MSgt Sosa enjoys quality time with his family and close friends. MSgt Sosa and his wife, Frances, have two children, a son Ulysses (an active duty Marine Major) and daughter Viviana.

Angela Valentine

Air Force Chief MSgt (retired from active duty since 2013)

Sosa is currently an Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Train ing Corps instructor at Vista Murrieta High School. She brings over 30 years of leader ship, training and mentoring experience to her work with the 220 students in Vista’s AFJROTC program. She also earned a bachelor of arts in Social Science and a master of science in psychology counseling. During her active-duty years, she served in Alaska, Florida, New Mexico, Arkan sas, California and South Carolina as well as overseas in Korea, Panama, Italy and Turkey. She was deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield and to Germany in support of Operation Deny Flight.

In addition to teaching full-time, Chief MSgt guides sev eral special programs giving cadets opportunities such as Honor Guard, Color Guard, competitive Drill Team and Pass & Review ceremonies. Under her leadership, the Honor Guard team salutes Air Force veterans by providing monthly funeral honors at Riverside National Cemetery.

Murrieta Celebrates Milestones

2022 represents important milestones for the City of Murrieta’s Police and Fire & Rescue departments. The Police De partment celebrated its 30th anniver sary on August 1, and Murrieta Fire & Rescue celebrated its 75th anniversary in April.

Murrieta is proud to be a “full-service city,” providing both police and fire services for residents and visitors. Hav ing its own public safety departments means that the City is able to provide high levels of service and create an en vironment that ensures the safety and well-being of residents.

Murrieta Fire & Rescue began as a vol unteer department in 1947, and to this day prides itself on providing unpar alleled customer service by safely and efficiently preserving life, property, and the environment through competent, all-risk emergen cy response.

Murrieta Police Depart ment’s vision is put into action each and every day, with a commitment to work together with the commu nity using innovative ideas, available resources, and government agencies to fight crime and improve the quali ty of life in our community.

The City of Murrieta is proud to celebrate these two departments that ensure Murrieta continues to be one of the safest cities in the nation. Without support and involvement from the community and organiza tions like the Rotary Club of Murrieta, their success wouldn’t be possible.

NAVIGATING THE FIELD

LOCAL HEROES SECTION: 131 FLAGS

The Local Heroes section is dedicated to military personnel residing in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties who have died in service to their country since 2003. Each flag has a ribbon with a tag noting each service member’s branch of service (Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines or Navy), rank (Private to Lieutenant Colonel), name, age (18 to 48), hometown and date of death. These men and women are local, there are several from Murrieta. You and your families may know some of the families affected.

The flags are arranged in chronological (date) order –starting with the first in 2003. There are 131 flags.

You can see why this field of flags means so much to many people. This Local Heroes Field is about the present. Young people are giving their lives now for the freedoms we all enjoy today.

It’s about Heart. It’s about Love. It’s about Loss. It’s about those who died protecting us against those who do not want us free: It’s about us today.

MEDAL OF HONOR FIELD: 80 FLAGS

The Medal of Honor section includes 80 very special flags -- one for every Californian who has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor since World War I.

The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor against an enemy force which can be awarded to a member of the United States Armed Forces. It is generally presented by the President of the United States.

The award was created in 1862 and since then, even though millions of people have been in the military, only 3,504 have received this award. Only 73 are living today.

On each of these special flags there is a report called a Citation, telling what courageous action was performed by the individual to earn the Medal of Honor.

OFFICIAL UNITED STATES FLAGS: 27 FLAGS

There are 27 Flags which have officially flown over the United States of America. The flags are arranged in chronological (date) order - from the first to the most recent.

Each flag includes a description of its adoption and the historical era (or time period) during which it flew as the official United States flag.

In addition, this display includes six flags that have ap peared during various periods of America’s history, includ ing the Betsy Ross flag which is often mistakenly consid ered to be the first flag.

The nation’s first Flag Act was passed by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, “Resolved. That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”

Since the appearance of that first 13-stripe flag and today, Congress has passed several acts that changed the design of Old Glory, including the custom of adding a new star as each new state was admitted to the Union. Once a flag is adopted, it is official forever and can be appropriately flown. Today, the flag consists of 13 horizontal stripes, rep resenting the original 13 colonies, and the stars represent the 50 states of the Union.

Can you figure out which flag was flying during each war?

VETERANS MEMORIAL

The Veterans Memorial Monument at Town Square Park is designed to create and maintain a dignified Veterans memorial reflecting contributions made by veterans from all branches of the military throughout the history of the United States, and to acknowledge as well as honor the courage, commitment, and heroism demonstrated by all Veterans past and present. The memorial’s concept is that each conflict brings lives and countries into moments of intense passion and conflict, commitment and escape, and euphoria and desperation.

The memorial is set in a meandering decomposed granite path that winds through the existing “V” pattern to rep resent these feelings and commitments. An obelisk with an inlaid granite American flag set in a base honor the five branches of military service (Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and Air Force) and is the highest visual identifica tion of the memorial, easily seen throughout the site.

Eventually seven individual walls of black granite will represent the United States’ various conflicts. The walls are etched with images of those who served, taken from pic tures of actual events or from renderings. Each wall is set in a chronological timeline to be viewed from both path ways but is also set to interrupt the decomposed granite path that links the monument walls. It is this interruption that symbolizes those struggles and abrupt interruption of life. The heights and shapes represented in the inclined and buried portions of the walls symbolize the moments of rise and fall in events that occurred during these conflicts. A memorial dedicated to prisoners of war or those missing in action, sits away from both main pathways.

Currently, the obelisk, the World War II and the Korean War walls are complete as is the POW/MIA memorial. The City of Murrieta is currently out to bid for completion of the Vietnam War wall which will replace the wood-andvinyl mock up.

STATE FLAGS

Our State Flags—The flags of the states that make up the United States of America reflect varying histories and regional differences. Most of the states’ flags were adopt ed around the turn of the 20th Century when each state wanted to have distinctive symbols on display at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL. Most of the flags have an interesting history, reflective generally of the region’s experiences. California’s flag, for example, was originally used to declare independence from Mexico in 1846, calling it the “California Republic.” The California legislature declared it the official state flag in 1911.

911 MEMORIAL

”We will never forget!” The Murrieta Rock Garden is dedicated to those who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 attacks on our Country. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists and were deliber ately crashed into two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and a field in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville, PA. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others. Among those who perished were 344 firefighters and 72 law en forcement officers. In addition, 55 military personnel died in the Pentagon attack.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

THE WORDS POUR FROM OUR HEARTS...

“O beautiful for spacious skies.” Still, few recall the origin of this hymn turned popular patriotic song. Massachusetts-born Katharine Lee Bates penned “America the Beautiful” in 1893 after a trip to the summit of 14,115-foot Pike’s Peak. “It was then and there, as I was looking out over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies that the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind.”

Bates’ poem first appeared in The Congregationalist, a weekly newspaper, on July 4, 1895. Bates revised her lyrics in 1904 and made some final additions to the poem in 1913. For several years, “America the Beau tiful” was sung to almost any popular tune that fit the lyrics. “Auld Lang Syne” was one of the most common.

Today, it is sung to a melody written in 1882 by Samuel Augustus Ward, a Newark, N.J. church organist and choirmaster. This melody was originally composed to accompany words for a 16th Century hymn “O Mother Dear, Jerusalem.” In 1926, the National Federation of Music Clubs sponsored a contest to elicit new music for Bates’ poem but failed to find a winner, and Ward’s music prevails.

According to the Performing Arts Encyclopedia, “‘America the Beautiful’ has been called ‘an expression of patriotism at its finest.’ It conveys an attitude of appreciation and gratitude for the nation’s extraordinary physical beauty and abundance, without triumphalism. It has also been incorporated into a number of films including The Sandlot and The Pentagon Wars.”

America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates

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O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America!

God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

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O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America!

God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!

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O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

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O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America!

God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

“My Country ‘tis of Thee”

By Samuel Francis Smith

Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics to “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” in 1831, while he was a stu dent at the Andover Theological Seminary in An dover, Massachusetts. His friend Lowell Mason had asked him to translate the lyrics in some German school songbooks or to write new lyrics. A melody in Muzio Clementi’s Symphony No. 3 caught his attention. Rather than translating the lyrics from German, Smith wrote his own American patriotic hymn to the melody, completing the lyrics in thirty minutes.

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My country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From ev’ry mountainside Let freedom ring!

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My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, Like that above.

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Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom’s song; Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong.

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Our National Anthem

Over 200 years ago, Washington, DC attorney, Francis Scott Key saw a flag flying over embattled Fort McHen ry which protected Baltimore’s harbor. It was early in the morning, and the amateur poet began jotting down the lines that became the National Anthem of the United States. That was on September 14, 1814, and the War of 1812 had been underway for two years, with disastrous battles for the young United States.

Key “could just make out the American flag waving above Fort McHenry. British ships were withdrawing from Balti more, and Key realized that the United States had survived the battle and stopped the enemy advance. Moved by the sight, he wrote a song celebrating that star-spangled banner as a symbol of America’s triumph and endurance.”

The lawyer and Washington “insider,” had been sent by President James Madison on a mission to Baltimore to negotiate with the British for the release of Dr. William Beanes, a prominent surgeon who had been captured at the Battle of Bladensburg. Key and a State Department attorney had set sail on an American sloop in Baltimore Harbor and had boarded the British ship Tonnant, where

they dined and secured the prisoner’s release under one condition—they could not go ashore until after the British attacked Baltimore. Accompanied by British guards, Key returned to the American sloop from which he witnessed the bombardment of Baltimore behind the 50-ship British fleet.

Initially, Key’s lyrics were titled, “Defense of Fort M’Henry” by a Baltimore newspaper. Two months after the battle, a Baltimore music store printed the patri otic song with sheet music under the lyrical title, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” More than a century passed before “The Star-Spangled Banner” became our country’s national anthem, although it increased in popularity through the years, including during the Civil War. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order designating it the national anthem for all military ceremonies. On March 3, 1931, after 40 previous at tempts failed, a measure passed Congress and was signed into law that designated “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem of the United Sates.

The Star-Spangled Banner

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Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: ‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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FLAG ETIQUETTE

STANDARDS OF RESPECT

Remember that every one of these flags represents one of our local heroes, who could be your brother, sister or loved one. While you are here visiting them you should pay your respects without any running or loud conversations. Many of you will see adults also visiting the field while you are here.

Remember that they may have loved ones who are no longer with us and may be silently meditating and remembering that person. So show them your respect by doing the same.

When visiting the flags of our Local Heroes show your re spect. The flags placed in this area represent the local men and women who have given their last measure of devotion to our country and represent the great struggle for freedom. The following is the Flag Code, which formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag:

• The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing. It is flown upside down only as a distress signal.

• The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speaker’s desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.

• The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose. It should not be embroidered, printed or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use. Advertising signs should not be attached to the staff or halyard.

• The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fire fighter, police

officer and members of patriotic organizations.

• The flag should never have placed on it, or attached to it, any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind.

• The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.

• When the flag is lowered, no part of it should touch the ground or any other object; it should be received by waiting hands and arms.

• To store the flag it should be folded neatly and ceremoniously.

EVOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FLAG

No one knows with absolute certainty who designed the first stars and stripes or who made it. Congressman Francis Hopkinson is most likely to have designed it and few historians believe that Betsy Ross, Philadelphia seamstress, made the first one.

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual arrangements of the stars and odd proportions, these features being left to the discretion of the flag maker. In general, however, straight rows of stars and proportions similar to those later adopted officially were used.

The principal acts affecting the flag of the United States are the following:

• On June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: “Resolved that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”

• Act of April 4, 1818 - provided for 13 stripes and one star for each state, to be added to the flag on the 4th of

July following the admission of each new state, signed by President Monroe.

• Executive Order of President Taft dated June 24, 1912 - established proportions of the flag and provided for arrangement of the stars in six horizontal rows of eight each, a single point of each star to be upward.

• Executive Order of President Eisenhower dated January 3, 1959 - provided for the arrangement of the stars in seven rows of seven stars each, staggered horizontally and vertically.

• Executive Order of President Eisenhower dated August 21, 1959 - provided for the arrangement of the stars in nine rows of stars staggered horizontally and eleven rows of stars staggered vertically.

DISPLAYING THE FLAG OUTDOORS

• When the flag is displayed from a staff projecting from a window, balcony, or a building, the union should be at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half staff.

• When it is displayed from the same flagpole with another flag - of a state, community, society or Scout unit - the flag of the United States must always be at the top except that the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for Navy personnel when conducted by a Naval chaplain on a ship at sea.

• When the flag is displayed over a street, it should be hung vertically, with the union to the north or east. If

the flag is suspended over a sidewalk, the flag’s union should be farthest from the building.

• When flown with flags of states, communities, or societies on separate flag poles which are of the same height and in a straight line, the flag of the United States is always placed in the position of honor - to its own right. The other flags may be smaller but none may be larger. No other flag should be placed above it. The flag of the United States is always the first flag raised and the last to be lowered.

• When flown with the national banner of other countries, each flag must be displayed from a separate pole of the same height. Each flag should be the same size. They should be raised and lowered simultaneously. The flag of one nation may not be displayed above that of another nation.

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND NATIONAL ANTHEM

• The pledge of allegiance should be rendered by standing at attention, facing the flag, and saluting.

• When the national anthem is played or sung, citizens should stand at attention and salute at the first note and hold the salute through the last note. The salute is directed to the flag, if displayed, otherwise to the music.

• “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

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ON THE FIELD OF HONOR

Station: Medal of Honor

Write the name and information on one Medal of Honor recipient. Give the recipient’s name, branch of service, rank and what he or she did to earn the Medal of Honor.

Station: Official United States Flags

Draw a picture of one official United States flag. Be sure to use the correct number of stars and stripes, and give the years it was used.

Station: Local Heroes

Write the name and information on one local hero. Give the hero’s name, branch of service, rank, city they were from and the date they were killed in action.

Station: State Flags

Draw a picture of the state flag of your choice, and answer the following questions: What is the name of the state?

Was the state admitted to the Union before September 10, 1850?

When was the state admitted to the Union?

Station: War Memorials and Obelisk

How did the war memorials make you feel? Can you write a one-word description and then explain why you felt this way?

Station: 9/11 Rock Garden Memorial

If you could create a memorial to honor those whose lives were lost during the 9/11 attack, what would it look like? Draw a picture and describe your tribute to the people who lost their lives on that fateful day September 11, 2001.

LESSONS IN PATRIOTISM

Patriotism is often called national pride. It is the sense of devotion to one’s country and an alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment. The Field of Honor gives a timeless perspective to patriotism, uniting our community members as we pay tribute to the service men and women who have fought for our country.

Every year, students in Murrieta, and surrounding communities, have received their lessons about Vet erans Day, the meaning of the American flag, and its heroes here.

Fifth grade students from all 11 Murrieta elementary schools have the unique opportunity to learn stories of courage, sacrifice and heroism from veterans who have served our country. They will remember the veterans who spoke passionately about serving in the Middle East, Korea or Vietnam.

Fifth grade visits started in the Field’s second year, after then-District Superintendent Stan Scheer, a Rotarian and volunteer, had experienced the first field and decided students should be bused to the Field to soak in the glory of the flags and study the Ameri can history presented there. And, they have each year since, excepting 2020 when the pandemic shutdown field trips.

Frequently, the students return with their families to show off what they have learned.

Those Who Serve

Murrieta Through Time--Coming Soon

Murrieta Rotary Club’s permanent contribution to the City’s Town Square Park will be Murrieta Through Time monuments displaying public art and information on significant eras in Murrieta’s history. The monuments will be tied together with a paved walkway and benches.

Murrieta Through Time will feature the area’s history from pre-ice age times, through Native American and Spanish influences, the development of agriculture, a railroad, the Murrieta Hot Springs and onto Cityhood. It will be lasting memorial of how the area developed and came to be the growing city that it is today.

Walkway pavers are still available for a $100 tax deductible donation which provides an opportunity to celebrate family, memorize a loved one, or recognize your business.

THE BILL OF RIGHTS:

ADMENTMENTS 1-10 OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the own er, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirma tion, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a pre sentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty,

or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witness es against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in con troversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Walking the Chalk

The Al Vollbrecht Rotary Chalk Walk

As the over 2,000 flags go on display throughout Town Square Park on November 5, 2022, a special group of artists will be working on a portion of the perimeter sidewalk to create a Chalk Walk.

Now in its 11th year, the Chalk Walk artists are adding to the patriotic imaginary of the week. Each piece must pay tribute to those who serve above self. Originally introduced by the late Rotarian Al Vollbrecht, who died in late 2020, this year’s Chalk Walk will be dedicated to his devotion to this special display and the artists who made it possible. Thank you, all.

Chalk artists work on their hands and knees on the concrete sidewalk and will be working there on Saturday, November 5 and Sunday, No vember 6. Artists use a special pastel chalk to create their works and they will remain on display throughout the Field of Honor week. Fifth grade students visiting the field will tour this “performance art” as part of their lessons. An ancient art tradition, chalk art has become increasingly popular throughout Southern California with festivals and special events. Most of the artists do it out of a love of the medium. In the case of the Field of Honor, there will be best of show works judging and prizes for adult and youth images.

The Temecula Valley New Gen Rotary Club has assumed oversight of the Al Vollbrecht Rotary Chalk Walk for 2022.

Crayons for Kids

Along the walk where the chalk artists are working, young er children will find an opportunity to color on very large “monster murals.” On table tops, there are murals with plenty of room for all who want to create and color. Color ing materials for this section will be available on November 6 and 7 and on November 11.

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