Pickup Trucks and American Flags Starts at 6 p.m. Memorial Day

People from everywhere will be gathering with their pickup trucks at The Horseshoe in Spring Creek Park on Lake Nasworthy a 6 p.m. Participants will mount U.S. flags on a pole in the bed of their trucks and, from the Horseshoe, drive a circuitous route around San Angelo to commemorate Memorial Day.

Organizer Nick Pharr, along with his friend Bobby Ray Earl, Jr., said that the idea was hatched and promoted on Facebook.

“It started when Earl thought that he was going to be pulled over for having such a big flag in the back of his truck,” Pharr said. The original post on Facebook attracted almost 600 likes before the moderator of the “San Angelo Swap and Sell, Where They Don’t Delete You Overnight” removed the post, Pharr said. From there, the threat of getting a ticket for the patriotic display turned into an event, and Pharr said he wouldn’t be surprised if 100 trucks showed up at the Horseshoe Memorial Day.

Pharr said that the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Department gave them the green light. “Have fun,” Pharr said they said. San Angelo Chief of Police Tim Vasquez said that he could have offered more help to the project had he had more time. Vasquez was thinking a police escort, similar to how funeral processions are organized, could keep the train of trucks together. But it was Memorial Day weekend already before he heard about the event, and he didn’t have time to schedule more officers to escort the train of trucks.

Pharr said that the event is meant to honor those who gave their lives in defense of our country. “You can hold a small flag out the window. You don’t have to mount a flagpole in the bed of your truck. It’s about Memorial Day,” he said.

If you plan to participate, arrive at the Horseshoe early, at around 5-5:30 p.m. They plan on departing a 6 p.m. A preplanned route around San Angelo is already developed. To get to the Horseshoe, turn off Knickerbocker Road onto Fisherman’s Road. Drive approximately three miles and turn left on Spring Creek Rd. The Horseshoe Bend is about 0.5 miles ahead. Here’s a map.

For information, please call Nick Pharr at (325) 374-9093.

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