Monday, which many people had off from work as their Independence Day holiday, VFW Boswell A. Johnson Post 10825 staged an open-air public reading of the Declaration of Independence and a flag-folding ceremony around the flagpole in front of the Bulloch County Judicial Annex.
VFW recalls what was at stake on the first Independence Day
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![Veterans John Kitchens, front center left, and Mike Cox, center right, senior vice commander and commander, respectively, of VFW Boswell A. Johnson Post 10825, fold the flag while in background Felix Loya, center, and Justin Williams, right, respectively](https://statesboroherald.cdn-anvilcms.net/media/images/2021/07/05/images/VFW_Flag_at_Reading_WIDE.max-752x423.jpg)
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