Remembering with Gratitude: Carson City veterans, volunteers place 1,400 flags at cemetery
Veterans organizations and volunteers from the Carson City area placed nearly 1,400 U.S. flags over memorial grave markers Friday afternoon at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
Vietnam veterans groups, Fleet Reserve Association of Sierra Tahoe, the Disabled Veterans of America were joined by NJROTC, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts and Elks Lodge. In nearly 30 minutes, all the flags for the ceremony had been distributed and were placed over the markers.
On Monday, beginning at 4 p.m. the flags will be removed. The public is invited to participate in the removal of the flags.
The Marine Corps League of Carson City will hold a Memorial Day ceremony for the Native American Indian community at the Stewart Cemetery on Monday, May 30, beginning at 10 a.m. The Historic Stewart Indian School Cemetery is located off Snyder Avenue, behind Corpus Christi Catholic Church, and across from the Stewart Indian School complex.
Everyone is welcomed to attend and are encouraged to honor Native American war heroes from the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam war and our recent conflicts in the Middle East, said Armstrong of the Marine Corps League of Carson City service.
An Honor Guard will be present. Gary Armstrong, who is one of many organizers of the event said they are looking for a bugler to participate in the Monday ceremony.
“We had a former military bugler play ‘Taps’ for us last year, and we didn’t get a name or a contact number and would sure like to have him back at our Monday ceremony,” said Armstrong.
Anyone interested in playing the bugle Monday should call Armstrong at (775) 882-1682.
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