The Healing Field Project Helps Support the National Exchange Club Foundation

Thanks to Paul Swenson, a dedicated Sandy, Utah, Exchangite, 3,031 American flags were placed in silent tribute to the memory of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This first Healing Field project commemorated the one-year anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.

The National Exchange Club Foundation Board of Trustees and the National Exchange Club Board of Directors voted unanimously at the 2003 National Exchange Club Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, to endorse the Healing Field project. A resolution was passed in support of the project. Healing Fields can honor any number of people from abused children to war veterans.

The work and mission of the Healing Field® Foundation spontaneously emerged from a patriotic desire of citizens and the Exchange Club in Sandy, Utah to honor the memory of the victims of the September 11th tragedy with a symbolic field of U.S. flags. Response to this first Healing Field flag display from around the nation was so overwhelming that The Healing Field Foundation was formed to help other communities organize and present Healing Field flag displays in honor of Patriot’s Day, Child Abuse Awareness and other patriotic causes to help raise awareness and money for worthy charitable causes.

The program was proliferated across America in cooperation and partnership with the National Exchange Club Service Organization and other patriotic organizations. The charter corporate sponsor of the National Healing Field Foundation, Colonial Flag donates $1 from every flag displayed on any sanctioned Healing Field flag display to the Exchange Club Foundation for the Prevention of Child abuse due to this cooperative effort.

The picture above is a Field of Flags, Memorial Day, 2009, courtesy of the Murfreesboro Noon Exchange Club.