AppleDumpling
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2015
Yes we have a flag, but only put it out on national holidays (or the weekend of) and always on 9/11.
We participated in this tradition for years with DS’ scout troop. At the national cemetery here, flags are placed on every grave the Saturday before Memorial Day, and are removed a week later. This is mostly done by a large contingent of volunteers. The cemetery is huge, with over 350,000 graves. The flags get rolled up and stored in bins to be re-used the following year. (Any that are broken or in poor condition get replaced with new.)There is a National Cemetery 5 minutes from my house, I walk by it several times a week. All Union Civil War dead. People were out today decorating each site with flags, I wondered if they collect them after a few days and reuse them in the following years; I know they don't stay there all summer.