HOA that claimed Memorial Day display honoring fallen Army hero was a nuisance does about-face

An Arizona homeowner’s association will allow a woman to keep a Memorial Day display in honor of her fallen US Army brother outside her home — despite previously calling the patriotic exhibit “a nuisance.”Trestle Management Group, which overseas the Surprise, Arizona, association where Kendall Rasmusson posted her display, said it was unaware that she had been given permission to display her love for her brother by the previous management company.“We learned only this morning that the homeowner we sent the courtesy notice to on May 7, 2025, had been given previous conditional approval to display her memorial/banner by the previous Board of Directors in this community, back on Jan.31, 2019,” Trestle President Jim Baska said in an email to The Post.“It is 100% our intention to honor the decision from the board back in 2019, and fully support the extended timeframe granted to the homeowner to display their memorial,” Baska wrote.

 Rasmusson, whose brother, US Army Sgt.John Kyle Daggett, was mortally wounded while deployed in Iraq in 2008, was warned by the Desert Oasis homeowners’ association earlier this month that she needed to remove the display because it was an eyesore and a “nuisance.”The display includes flags and banners on her front lawn, patriotic signs and a large poster on her garage door that shows her brother in uniform — with the poster being the main point of contention.

“They put it in comparison with dead plants, dead trees and bushes,” Rasmusson told AZ Family.“And it was kind of offensive to have it be in this comparison of what they’re calling a nuisance.”She usually puts up the display on Independence Day, Labor Day and Memorial Day, she said.But her dilemma drew attention after she told her story on a local neighborhood group page, which led to several new reports about the HOA’s demand.That’s when Baska said the company came to learn that Rasmusson had previously been given permission to keep the displa...