When Cincinnati marks Veterans Day at Eden Park on Wednesday, the flags at the front of the ceremony will be carried by members of American Legion Post 644 — the only all-female American Legion post in Ohio, and one of only a few in the nation, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Post 644’s own site describes it as the only all-women veteran American Legion post in the state of Ohio, chartered since 1946. The post has a current membership of 54, the Enquirer reported.
The post’s role in the ceremony came together after organizers struck out elsewhere. Organizers asked ROTC programs at three area universities to supply women to carry the flags and were unsuccessful, following an earlier effort to recruit an all-female honor guard from the U.S. military branches directly, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The Enquirer reported that only the Army responded to that effort, saying a Trump administrative rule no longer allowed it to participate in events “centered on immutable characteristics” such as gender…