Memorial Day Flag Placement in Cemetery

05/31/2019

Council: 114 - BANGOR

Project Description:

For the past five years, the Director of our Catholic Cemetery (currently Gene Gagnon and Joe Gallant) have asked the Knights to organize efforts to place American Flags and medallions on the graves of veterans. The Knights publicize the event in the Church Bulletin, and they have the Parish Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and many Parishioners help.

On May 11, 2019 over three dozen Knights, their families, Scouts and Parishioners attended to help place flags on the graves sites prior to Memorial Day. Brother Mike Caruso from Pine Cone Council planned the event including recruiting knights and their families, the Scouts and Parishioners to assist. Brother Jake Sension brought refreshments from Dunkin Donuts so that everyone had access to hot cocoa, coffee, and donuts. The event started at 9:30 with an introduction to how to find the headstones and footstones, how to determine if they were a veteran, and how to place the flags for coordination and consistency. The cemetery is quite large and although it is located on Ohio Street, it is actually split in two by the I-95 highway. The event took around 2.5 hours to place several hundred flags, medallions, and stakes in the ground. It was a great event and has turned into a great tradition of our youth coming together with everyone to honor our Veterans and to help build up our Church and Community.