Vets Help Replace Flags

Old Glory is flying once again outside a post office branch in Port St. Lucie.  A veterans' motorcycle club decided they had to get involved and do something to replace the flag, after seeing a story on CBS12 over the weekend.  In that story, we reported that a veteran was upset that the Midport station post office on Veterans Memorial Parkway did not have a U.S. flag and the grass needed to be cut and there were weeds everywhere.   Members of the Ft. Pierce chapter of the U.S. Military Vets Motorcycle Club saw our story and decided to get involved. They went to the post office, determined what needed to be done, bought rope and some hardware for the flagpole and did the work themselves to repair the flagpole and hoist the American flag and a POW-MIA flag.

Mike Lloyd, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, says they did not have a flag because it had been stolen.  Lloyd says they had put in a requisition order for a new flag and were waiting for a vendor to start the work on the flagpole.  But when dealing with bureaucracy, he says these things take time.  The veterans felt there was no need to wait, and realized they could get it done themselves in much less time.   The veterans provided the POW-MIA flag, while the post office provided the U.S. flag.

The post office also brought in landscapers to mow the grass and trim the weeds.