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  • Vets plan to ignore ban on flag-folding recitations

    10/26/2007 1:23:22 PM PDT · by Sopater · 68 replies · 153+ views
    One News Now ^ | October 26, 2007 | Jim Brown
    An American Legion commander in California says he and other veterans will defy a newly imposed ban on flag-folding recitations that include references to God. During thousands of military burials, Veterans Administration employees and volunteers have folded the American flag 13 times and recited the significance of every fold to survivors. The fourth fold, for example, refers to God's "divine guidance." The 11th fold glorifies "the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." And the 12th fold glorifies "God the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost." Now the National Cemetery Association has made a decision to ban flag-folding recitations by VA...