Flags still placed on graves
Published 10:23 pm Friday, May 22, 2020
Matthew Metheny – 13, Troop 369 Bayside Presbyterian Church
David L. Miller salutes a grave after placing a flag at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery on Friday. Although the Memorial Day ceremony will be online this year due to COVID-19, the public was invited out to place flags at the graves.
Eliza Freeman, 4, parades the flag while her aunt, Laureen Banasiak, places a flag at a grave at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery on Friday. (Jen Jaqua photo)
Kay Byrd places a flag at a grave at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery on Friday.
James Thomason places a flag at a grave at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery on Friday.
Laureen Banasiak helps her niece Eliza Freeman, 4, place a flag at a grave at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery on Friday.
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People came out to Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery in family groups to place flags on the graves there ahead of Memorial Day on Monday.
The flags typically are placed by large groups of children, such as Boy Scouts, but with physical distancing encouraged, the cemetery allowed individuals and families in a few at a time to place flags.
