Veterans Flag Retirement Cavalry

10/08/2024

Because certain Cavalry members being absent due to seasonal work employment related activities during the month of October, the monthly October Cavalry Meeting is hereby canceled and the next monthly meeting will be held next month in November. Hopefully at the normal regularly scheduled time.

09/21/2024

We would like to thank all the Veterans Flag Retirement Cavalry Members.... Colonel "Paul Bell" (Troop Commander), Lieutenant Colonel "Dan Henderson" (Troop Executive Officer), Sergeant Major "Jim O'Dell", (Troop Command Sergeant Major), First Lieutenant "Kenneth Robbins", (Troop Chaplain), "Sergeant Brenda Henderson", (Troop Adjutant and Bugler), that showed up, attended, and helped perform duties for and during the annual "Freedom Fest" held at the "Veterans of Foreign Wars" Hall in Burley on Saturday, September 14, 2024 and of which helped perform the flag retirement ceremony and also of which help perform all the other specially requested duties as Flag Honor Guard for Honoring the Viet Nam Era Veterans in the special "Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Ceremony" of which was hosted and conducted by "Susan Nickell".

We would also like to specially thank both the Post Commander "Russ Ludlow" of the "Veterans of Foreign Wars" Post 3043", and also "Dixie O'Dell" of the "Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 3043" as well as "Susan Nickell", the Volunteer Manager of the "Idaho Home Health & Hospice" for requesting, inviting, and allowing the Veteran's Flag Retirement Cavalry to attend and perform those specially requested duties and honors in order to help make the 2024 annual Freedom Fest a huge success.

Due to the special pride, dedication and perseverance of all of our attending members of the Veterans Flag Retirement Cavalry as well as those members of the "Veterans of Foreign Wars" Post 3043", and the members of the "Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 3043" as well as by the Volunteer Manager of the "Idaho Home Health & Hospice" the annual 2024 Freedom Fest activities went off without a hitch.

We would also like to extend our thanks as well as pride to the Burley Fire Department, the Cassia County Sherriff's Office, and all their attending official members as well as to all the other Burley city and Cassia County officials' of which set up and/or represented their organization's and of which approved of and also attended the annual 2024 Freedom Fest in order to help make it a huge success for another year.

Once Again a Hearty Thanks to one and all as well as to those organization's and officials of which put on and hosted the annual 2024 Freedom Fest in Burley, Idaho this year.

09/09/2024

The September monthly meeting that was temporarily postponed last Monday due to the Labor Day Holiday is now re-scheduled for tomorrow night Monday 9/9/2024 at 7:00 pm at the VFW Hall. As previously mentioned, discussed, and approved by all members at the last monthly meeting in August the full dress uniform is to be worn by all members during this months meeting.

08/16/2024

08/05/2024

Remember - Tonight is the monthly Veterans Flag Retirement Cavalry meeting at he VFW hall at 7:00 pm. Please Be There on time.

05/14/2023

Five of the Veterans Flag Retirement Cavalry members standing alongside of the Stage Coach at the Pioneer Village near Declo, Idaho during the Pioneer Farms Days Events May 11 through 13, 2023. From left to right, Sergeant Major Jim O'Dell, Colonel Paul Bell, Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dan Henderson, Executive Officer, Sergeant Brenda Henderson, Bugler, Private Ken Robbins as acting Chaplain.

10/07/2022

FYI - The October 2022 meeting has been temporarily postponed due to certain member personnel work schedules, and will be rescheduled for later in the month. or the next meeting will be in December 2022.

09/05/2022

The next monthly meeting will be:
Tonight Monday, August 5, 2022.
Location: Burley VFW Hall.
Arrival Time: 6:30 to 7:00 pm.
Meeting starting time: 7:00 pm (1900 hrs).
Please do not be late.

07/13/2022

American Flag Prayer

• Oh God, I am “Old Glory” I am the American flag.
• Protect the country above which I fly so proudly & free.
• Deliver me, my country, and my fellow citizens from my enemies, both foreign & domestic.
• Deliver me, my country, and my fellow citizens from all evil and all injustices of evil.
• Protect me from all of those that shall rise up against me, my nation and my fellow citizens.
• May my citizens protect me from destruction.
• May my citizens forever revere me and all that I stand for.
• May my citizens forever treat me with kindness and respect.
• May my citizens never allow me to be taken down, trampled upon, burned, or destroyed because of personal hatred for all that I stand for.
• Protect those members of our armed forces, along with those citizens of whom fight for me your flag, my country, our freedoms, our liberties, and my fellow citizens.
• Never let my country fall from within or from its enemies both foreign and domestic.
• May my citizens retire me with the proper respect I am due when I’m no longer serviceable to fly over our nation or their heads.
• Let Freedom Ring throughout our Nation, One Nation Under God, With Liberty and Justice for all.
• Oh God, allow me to forever fly proudly and free above the nation of which I so dearly love and cherish.

Oh God, I Ask This In Your Name
Amen