Missing drop box for flags found

The missing drop box for people to dispose of American flags has been found.

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VFW Post 6370 Vice Commander Jim Lang, left, and Commander Fred Burnham, were thankful that MIF-RD Battalion Chief Donnie Jones found the missing American flag drop box.

“One of the fireman, Donnie Jones, discovered it,” Jim Lang, vice commander of VFW Post 6370, said. “We took it down to Sign Artist, who donated his time to paint it for us.”

The box used to be next to the Marco Island Fire-Rescue Department’s station. Lang said the box was “discarded” when construction began on the new community center and police station building, adjacent to the fire department.

After MIF-RD Battalion Chief Donnie Jones found the box, it was painted red, white and blue. Lang installed the box next to the Marco Utilities payment box on the west side of the City Hall parking lot.

Fred Burnham, commander of VFW Post 6370, said the box serves two purposes. “People can dispose of an American flag properly and to try to encourage others to pay respect to the flag when they are done with it,” he said. “I think that will help,” he said.

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