3702 - Memorial Day

That's not me on the bench

From the site US Memorial Day.org

"Since the late 1950s on the Thursday before Memorial Day, 1,200 soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day."

I thought St. Louis was the first to do the flags at a National Cemetery. It seems we were the second. But we were the first Boy Scout Council to do it. There are many more doing it now. I helped put out quite a few flags years ago.