More than 250,000 Flags Placed at Riverside National Cemetery on Memorial Day Weekend

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On a gloomy Sunday afternoon, dozens of people gathered at Miramar National Cemetery for a Memorial Day service. Larry Anderson, a Vietnam Veteran who served in the U.S. Army, remembers well his time in the war roughly 50 years ago. “You never forget. You don’t forget those. It always lingers in your mind that you… you go about your business, but it’s always there,” said Anderson. Anderson was sat alongside his fellow veterans at the ceremony. H…

More than 250,000 flags placed at Riverside National Cemetery on Memorial Day weekend

Hundreds of volunteers at Riverside National Cemetery placed American flags alongside more than 250,000 grave sites as part of a Memorial Day weekend tribute.

Volunteers place flags to honor veterans at Riverside National Cemetery

Volunteers fanned out Saturday morning, May 24, at Riverside National Cemetery placing a small American flag at every grave of the veterans buried there. The special Memorial Day honor — “A Flag for Every Hero” — is organized each year by Honoring Our Fallen, a Southern California-based nonprofit dedicated to “serving our nation’s fallen and the families these heroes have left behind by providing comprehensive support,” its website says. A volun…

Riverside National Cemetery to Host Flag Walk Saturday

Hundreds of volunteers will fan out Saturday across Riverside National Cemetery to place miniature American flags alongside more than 250,000 grave sites as part of Memorial Day weekend tribute. The “Flag for Every Hero” event is slated for 8 a.m. to noon, beginning with a brief ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Amphitheater in the middle of the cemetery. Brennan Leininger, who inaugurated the walks more than a decade ago with the help of Garden…