Town Square Park, Murrieta, CA 92562
Murrieta Rotary’s awe-inspiring, emotion-filled patriotic event, the Field of Honor, flies again this Veterans Day week,, when hundreds of folks from the region recognize their personal heroes with a flag. More than 2,000 full-sized American flags will be set up in perfect rows and columns for the week-long event that also features a number of other activities.
It’s a week to pay honor and express thanks. And it’s also a time to educate — visitors to the Field gain knowledge about American history. We learn about our country’s flags, its highest military honor, its war dead.
- A Patriots Ball
- Artists will be painting patriotic images in chalk
- The city’s Veterans Day parade winds up at the field
- 5th graders from local schools plan to make a field trip to the field
- A middle schools choral concert highlights the candlelight concert
- The Marines will celebrate their birthday
The Rotary club, a local group of some 50 active members, started the project in 2009 as a community service to honor those who have been heroes in our lives. Many are military veterans and first-responders, but more also are grandparents, favorite teachers and even some organizations, whomever a sponsor wishes to recognize. Rotary is flying 2,200 flags this fall, which will fill much of the park located in the civic hub of the city, surrounded by city hall, the police station, library and senior center.
Information booth is open on the field from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on event days.
Flag sponsors from previous years can repost their flags with ribbons during the event’s open hours.
SATURDAY, NOV. 4
7:30 A.M. – Run Forrest Run 5K fun run registration opens for 9 a.m. start
9:00 A.M. – Patriots Chalk Walk painting begins and runs until dusk
10:00 A.M. – Opening ceremonies for the Field of Honor
10 A.M. to 2 P.M. – Military Family Resources Expo, Paul Mitchell School Cut-a-thon, Patriot Band plays
SUNDAY, NOV. 5
9 A.M. – 4 P.M – Chalk art painting continues
1 P.M. – 6 P.M – Music and Art Festival (info at MurrietaArts.org)
MONDAY – THURSDAY, NOV. 6-9
5th grade student field trips
MONDAY, NOV. 6
NOON – Murrieta Rotary Veterans Tribune luncheon (by invitation)
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8
6:00 P.M. – Candlelight Choral Concert – by middle school choirs
THURSDAY, NOV. 9
1 P.M.– Marine Corps birthday celebration
5:00 P.M. – The Final Salute flag retirement ceremony by the Boy Scouts
SATURDAY, NOV. 11
9:00 A.M. – 5 P.M. – Sponsors may pick up flags
10 A.M. – Murrieta’s Veterans Day parade downtown
5 P.M.– The Field closes
6 P.M.– Patriots Ball (ticketed event)
SUJNDAY, NOV. 12
9:00 A.M. – NOON – Sponsors pick up flags
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