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  • After complaint in Riverside, flag-folding recitation banned at veterans cemeteries nationwide

    10/26/2007 7:55:11 PM PDT · by SkyDancer · 35 replies · 998+ views
    Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 08:12 AM PDT on Thursday, October 25, 2007 | By JOE VARGO
    Through thousands of military burials, Memorial Honor Detail volunteers at Riverside National Cemetery have folded the American flag 13 times and recited the significance of every fold to survivors of those being laid to rest. The first fold, a narrator tells relatives, represents life, the second a belief in eternal life. The 11th fold celebrates Jewish war veterans and "glorifies the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." A single complaint lodged against the words for the 11th fold recently prompted the National Cemetery Administration to ban the entire recital at all 125 national cemeteries....