"Flag On Mountain Maryland" Set For June 14 At Wisp

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Jun. 3, 2010


The annual Flag on Mountain Maryland celebration will be held on Flag Day, Monday evening, June 14, at Wisp Resort, McHenry. Billed as a patriotic event for the entire family, this year's theme is "Honoring Our Local Korean War Veterans."

A fly-over is scheduled for 5:45 p.m. The program will start at 6 p.m., featuring a "living flag" coming down Marsh Mountain.

Korean War veteran 2nd Lt. Bruce Baker will be the keynote speaker. He was born in Nebraska in 1930, and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 16, serving from 1946 through 1954.

Baker was a radio operator until he entered Officer Candidate School. He was a chauffeur for a general officer in Europe and was a combat infantry officer in Korea from 1952 until the end of the war in 1953.

In civilian life, Baker was the administrator for Walt Disney exhibits at the New York World's Fair in 1964. After that he worked as a ranch-hand and a "real-live" cowboy in Nebraska and Wyoming until he got into the golf business.

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