Proposal to honour veterans with world’s tallest flagpole abandoned by US family

The towering pole would have been topped with an American flag (AP)

A US family’s audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centrepiece for a billion-dollar project honouring veterans has been abandoned.

The Worcester family will not pursue the flagpole project in Washington County, Maine, or elsewhere for the time being and will look instead for other ways to commemorate those who have served, said lawyer Timothy Pease.