On the Saturday before Memorial Day Pack 55 joined 150 other scouts at Knoxville National Cemetery to place American flags on the graves of the veterans buried there.
It was a beautiful, sunny day, with 9000 flags waving in a light breeze.
Many headstones in Knoxville National Cemetery bear the names of Blue and Gray veterans who died in the Civil War. Others mark the graves of those who died young in France in World War I. Veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam are also interred here.
The graves in Knoxville National are laid out so that the headstones face the main American Flag at the center of the Cemetery. The flag flies over the cemetery every day. On Memorial Day it flies at half staff.
You can watch a news report on flag placement here.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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