Dozens gathered to watch as members of the 38th Composite Squadron of the Maine Civil Air Patrol raised the flag in honor of Veterans Day at a luncheon at Birch Bay Retirement Village in Bar Harbor.

The flag raising occurred at 11:11 a.m. on Nov. 11, the official date and time an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then …