Arvest Bank, headquartered in Fayetteville, AR, presents military branch flags to VA Loan Program recipients at mortgage closing, throughout the bank’s four-state footprint. Recipients are surprised and pleased, said Carter Maxey, Arvest’s marketing manager for its mortgage division, and a Marine Corps veteran. “I have to admit I have choked up just reading accounts of some of the veterans’ responses to receiving the branch flag,” Maxey said. “That’s when I realized how powerful this had become.”