Veterans, volunteers place flags on Veterans Day in Flag City, USA, Redmond

Veterans and volunteers placed over 1,600 American flags across Redmond this Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Redmond School District Superintendent Charan Cline, a veteran who served with the 82nd Airborne Division and as a long-range surveillance unit for the Seventh Corps during the Gulf War, placed flags along Highland Avenue with his wife and city housing program analyst Linda Cline and volunteers from the Deschutes County 4-H program. Other volunteers with Redmond’s Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program were placing flags near Centennial Park in downtown. This was the last flag placing of 2026 and Flag City USA’s 35th year. Flag City USA, also known as ad-hoc group Redmond Downtown Flag Committee, has been placing full size American flags with monogrammed names on the hems throughout the city on national holidays, like Memorial Day, Flag Day and the Fourth of July, since 1991. The group’s work is all based on community support. Cline was trained as a sniper.

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