Naperville Healing Field display
This morning I took a walk thru the Healing Field of Honor at Rotary Hill in Naperville. It is a display of 2,009 United States flags placed over the last two days in honor or our service men and women. The Healing Field of Honor program began in 2002, as a way of honoring those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01. Fields continue to encourage unity, remembrance and healing. Fields of Honor pay tribute to those soldiers who have fallen and/or are in our military, protecting our very freedoms. 
If you have a chance, go take a look – walk around the display, walk through it. Take a tour of the Millennium Carillon and with the display from above. It is hard to describe the feeling as you walk among the flags. The unique sound of flags snapping in the breeze is almost hypnotic. To see Veterans standing their, paying their respects to comrades and their memories, and what looked to be parents of current service personnel with tears in their eyes, makes for a pretty powerful experience.
If you are so inclined, for $35.00 you can sponsor a flag and place a tag on it with the names of those you are remembering. I tagged the 4th one in from the left on the 9th row (my Dad’s birthday) in his name, and that of a brother-in-law, brother, and 3 nephews who have served or are serving.
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