Dennis Koch straightens a flag in the Field of Honor at the Illinois Veterans Home on Friday, Sep. 6, 2019.
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Ayden Shriver, 11, pounds a fence post in to the ground to be used to put a flag pole on at the Field of Honor at the Illinois Veterans Home on Friday, Sep. 6, 2019. Shriver, who has helped the Exchange Club two years in a row, does it for community volunteer hours.
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Quincy Exchange Club member, Elvin Townsend, unfurls an American flag during set up of Field of Honor at the Illinois Veterans Home on Friday, Sep. 6, 2019. Townsend, the oldest member of the club and Navy veteran, helped set up 1,000 flags with the Exchange Club of Quincy.
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American flags lay in trailer, ready to be unfurled for the Field of Honor at the Illinois Veterans Home on Friday, Sep. 6, 2019.
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Doug Greenwell pulls a handful of flag poles out of a trailer at the Veterans Home on Friday, Sep. 6, 2019.
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Barry Cheyne stands in a sea of American flags at the Illinois Veterans Home on Friday, Sep. 6, 2019.
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