Flags For Our Fallen

Program Mission

We provide to the family a custom, hand crafted Flag with personal & historical significance for every First Responder that was taken in the Line of Duty.

Historic artifacts are placed under stars.  Artifacts include:

​World Trade Center Steel: The 9/11 World Trade Center Steel is from our twin towers. We have several pieces. Our first pieces came from two memorial builds. The pieces were recovered during the construction of those memorials. We also have a very large piece of the world trade center. It was given to us by the NYC Port Authority. It is our most precious artifact. These pieces are a clear reminder of sacrifice, honor, courage, and commitment. 

Sand from Thermopylae: The sand from Thermopylae was provided to us by SEAL TEAM 2. They recovered the sand during their 2018 deployment where they visited the exact site of the battle.

Thermopylae (/θərˈmɒpɪliː/; Ancient and Katharevousa Greek: Θερμοπύλαι [tʰermopýlai], Demotic: Θερμοπύλες [θermoˈpiles]: "hot gates") is a place in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity. It derives its name from its hot sulfur springs. The Hot Gates is "the place of hot springs" and in Greek mythology it is the cavernous entrances to Hades.

Thermopylae (Known as the Hot Gates) is world-famous for the battle that took place there between the Greek forces (notably the Spartans) and the invading Persian forces, commemorated by Simonides in the famous epitaph, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here obedient to their laws we lie." Thermopylae is the only land route large enough to bear any significant traffic between Lokris and Thessaly. This passage from north to south along the east coast of the Balkan peninsula requires use of the pass and for this reason Thermopylae has been the site of several battles.

In ancient times it was called Malis which was named after the Malians (Ancient Greek: Μαλιεῖς), a Greek tribe that lived near present-day Lamia at the delta of the river, Spercheios in Greece. The Malian Gulf is also named after them. In the western valley of the Spercheios their land was adjacent to the Aenianes. Their main town was named Trachis. In the town of Anthela, the Malians had an important temple of Demeter, an early center of the Anthelan Amphictiony.

The land is dominated by the coastal floodplain of the Spercheios River and is surrounded by sloping forested limestone mountains. There is continuous deposition of sediment from the river and travertine deposits from the hot springs which has substantially altered the landscape during the past few thousand years. The land surface on which the famous Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BC is now buried under 20 metres (66 ft) of soil. The shoreline has also advanced over the centuries because of the sedimentary deposition. The level of the Malian Gulf was also significantly higher during prehistoric times and the Spercheios River was significantly shorter. Its shoreline advanced by up to 2 kilometers between 2500 BC and 480 BC but still has left several extremely narrow passages between the sea and the mountains. The narrowest point on the plain, where the Battle of Thermopylae was probably fought, would have been less than 100 meters (330 ft) wide. Between 480 BC and the 21st century, the shoreline advanced by as much as 9 km (5.6 mi) in places, eliminating the narrowest points of the pass and considerably increasing the size of the plain around the outlet of the Spercheios.  The hot springs from which the pass derives its name still exist close to the foot of the hill.

Statue Of Liberty: Soil from the base of the Statue of Liberty was recovered for us by a dear SEAL Teammate of Jimmy’s.

"The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886.  It was designated as a National Monument in 1924.

Oklahoma City Bombing: This artifact was given to Valhalla's Forge on 3 August 2022 by Scott Schubmehl. Virginia Beach Police Department

The granite is from the floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Building, which was heavily damaged as ere numerous others.

The donor served a 30 day temporary duty assignment in Oklahoma City from 6/8 – 7/8/1995, in support of this investigation.

During this time agents working at the bombing site were allowed to take pieces of the granite and distribute to employees working at the command post.

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by two anti-government extremists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02 a.m. and killed at least 168 people,[1] injured more than 680 others, and destroyed more than one-third of the building, which had to be demolished. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage. Local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies engaged in extensive rescue efforts in the wake of the bombing. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activated 11 of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, consisting of 665 rescue workers who assisted in rescue and recovery operations. The Oklahoma City bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

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