The Colorado Springs man who designed the black and white POW/MIA flag flown everywhere from federal buildings to Harley-Davidson fenders died Thursday at his home.
Newt Heisley was 88.
"Newt wanted no hoopla. All he wants is a celebration," his fiancee, Donna R. Allison, said.
That's what he'll get on Flag Day, June 14, from 1-4 p.m. at the American Legion Post 38 in Security. The public is invited. He will be entombed at Shrine of Remembrance next to his wife of 61 years, Margaret "Bunny", who died in 2005.
The prolific image he sketched in pencil in 1971 has the silhouette of a man under a guard tower and behind barbed wire. It's a symbolic reminder that not every soldier returned from the war in Vietnam.
Now is the time at Castle Argghhh! when we dance: In Memoriam
How sad.
At Saturday's Welcome Home Celebration in Cincinnati, two guys jumped in- one with an American flag, and the other with a POW flag- and yellow smoke. It was beautiful. Newt would have been proud.