A group of Lake Riverside Estates veterans organized a National Flag Day US flag retirement ceremony at the Veterans Memorial by the lake Saturday, June 14.The event was well attended by LRE residents, their families and local military vets.Active duty Marines from Camp Pendleton 0811 Field Artillery Sergeant Paloma and Staff Sergeant Hinjosa performed a short ceremony and retired the first flag, after which organizer Dan Sandoval encouraged attendees to take part in the burning of over a dozen battered flags that were brought to the event.Each worn flag was carefully unfolded, spread over a fire blazing in the Veterans Memorial firepit and gently lowered into the flames. The vets saluted the
