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Welcome Home WINTER TEXAN • • • February 16, 2022
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We’re just connecting the dots.
VOLUME 7 • ISSUE 18 • February 16, 2022 • • • your official connection to the rio grande valley • • •
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’m back from our fifth annual cruise, wishing I was still on board. It was a wonderful week, and I find myself rested, recharged, and ready to go, go, go! If you would like to cruise with us in 2023, we’d love to have you join us. We set sail February 5 out of Galveston, Texas, and while we take the same route as we did this year (Roatan, Honduras, Costa Maya, Mexico, and Cozumel, Mexico) we will be boarding a newto-us ship, Allure of the Seas. We celebrated our last cruise on Liberty of the Seas and look “oh so forward” to our next sailing adventure. We provide round-trip bus transportation and hotel accommodations the night before we set sail and camaraderie you can’t put a price tag on!
A Farewell to Old Glory
If you are interested in joining us, call our office at 956-687-5115 and ask for Kristy Meyer (or Travel Kristy or TK, as we call her at the office to avoid confusion). We’re ready for your calls. There is so much happening in February, it makes January pale in comparison. I know we have a number of first-timers still checking in daily to see what winters are like in South Texas, so if this is your first time with us, I wish you a warm Valley welcome! • We’re just connecting the dots,
Kristi
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Story and Photos by Eryn Reddell Wingert
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veteran, holding out a rake with an American flag draped across the tines, walks to the edge of a cinderblock-lined fire pit and cautiously drops the banner onto the flames. The colors--red, white, and blue-quickly disappear, turning black as the man salutes toward the flames then turns back to retrieve another flag, and another, and another.
Hundreds of tattered, faded and worn flags--the exact count unknown but the estimated range between two and four hundred--were ceremoniously retired at Bibleville Conference Grounds in Alamo in early February. According to the National Flag Foundation website, the U.S. Flag Code reads, “The flag, when it is in
such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.” The Bibleville Flag Retirement Ceremony did just that, drafting veterans to help properly retire the flags collected in recent years. “It shows respect for our flag. We all served our country,” shares Rollin
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