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Air Force veteran Heather Allen helps retrieve flags on display on the greenway along Railroad Street in Plains. The 660 flags were part of a military veteran suicide awareness program established by Joint Operation Mariposa, a nonprofit organization designed to help veterans. Ed Foste, the program coordinator, put up the first set of 22 flags on September 1 and each night placed 22 more to represent the 22 veterans lost to suicide each day. The flags also represent the families of those lost vets.