Field of Flags is coming to Chebeague August 15, 2009

From the Somers Congregational Church website at http://somerscongregational.org/Ministries/Field-of-Flags/history.html

The “Field of Flags” was dedicated on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at the Somers Congregational Church in Somers, Connecticut. Members of the Memorial Garden Committee of the Somers Congregational Church placed 2,231 American flags, one for each American casualty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The flags were placed to honor those who have given their lives in the conflicts and to show that those who have died and their families and friends were remembered in prayer at the church.  The list of casualties, by state, was displayed on a name board by the Field of Flags showing the name and rank of each American casualty.

The Field of Flags had more impact than the committee envisioned with the media coverage and the emotional reaction from their community and beyond. The flags have become a movable exhibit of about 5,000 flags, traveling to churches on the east coast.  This three-week event beginning on August 15th will be the flags' first trip to Maine.

"The Field of Flags is a silent, patriotic and poignant reminder of the cost of war. Each flag represents not simply one casualty, but all the family members and friends who have been touched by that life now gone." That is an excerpt from the history of the Field of Flags from the website.