Mike Goble, center, receives a check from Vacaville’s American Legion Post 165 members, from left, chaplain Dan Seibert, Cmdr. Michael Terhorst, Vice Cmdr. Leonard Miller and Adjutant Jeff Jewell, Friday, March 25, 2022. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic)
American Legion Post 165, Vacaville recently contributed $380 to replace all the flags on Mike Globle’s, USMC Memorial Flag Hill on I-80 Westbound between Vacaville and Fairfield.
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VACAVILLE — Mike Goble never imagined putting up a couple of flags on a hill in memory and honor of two friends who died in Vietnam would ever become what it has turned out to be.
“It’s become a kind of landmark, way bigger than what I ever thought it would be,” Goble said about the flags that fly on what is now known as Memorial Hill.
“And it is one of the best views in Solano County,” he said.
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