Flags To Be Lowered For Maryland Soldier Killed In Reisterstown

MARYLAND — Flags across the state will be lowered to honor a Maryland National Guard soldier who died in a crash near Reisterstown this week. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan ordered flags to fly at half-staff until the burial for a Montgomery County woman remembered as a "true soldier."

Sgt. Dinora Aracely Flores, 33, of Damascus, was a staff sergeant at Camp Frettard Military Reservation, where she has worked since 2009. She was a full-time non-commissioned officer for the Recruiting and Retention Battalion, the agency said in a statement.

"I had just met SSG Flores a couple of weeks ago, and she was a bright and loving person and a true soldier," one woman wrote on the Maryland National Guard's Facebook post about its loss.

Flores died after her car was hit by a truck and pushed into the path of a tractor-trailer on MD 30 on Tuesday, April 2. She was less than 0.5 mile from the military reservation at the time of the crash.

"I have ordered Maryland flags to fly at half-staff until the day she is laid to rest," Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement after her death on Tuesday, April 2. "She served our state and country with great distinction. I ask all Marylanders to keep the Flores family in your prayers at this difficult time."

The flags will be raised at sunset on the day of her interment.

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