Durango remembers loved ones on Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a day that families make their way to Greenmount Cemetery to place flowers and freshen up headstones.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Memorial Day Service at the Vietnam Memorial in Iris Park on Monday morning.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Memorial Day service at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery was held under a mostly blue sky and warm temperatures.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Buck Nevils with the Honor Guard, stands with the color guard at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery during Monday’s Memorial Service.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Cadence Klatt, 3, places a flower on a grave at Greenmount Cemetery on Monday.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
The color guard carries flags into the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery at the start of Monday’s Memorial Service.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Amanda Lorenzini holds her son Nicholas, 3, while he and his sister Bella, 4, plug their ears as the honor guard fires their salute at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery during Memorial day Services on Monday. Bella and Nicholas are also the children of Sam Lorenzini.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Jim Mooney salutes the the Vietnam Memorial after placing a rose in front of it in honor of a fallen soldier during Monday’s Memorial Day Service at Iris Park.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Memorial Day is a day that families make their way to Greenmount Cemetery to place flowers and freshen up headstones.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Michael Rodri and his wife Kristy, share a moment during the Memorial Day Service at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery on Monday.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Memorial Day service at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery was held under mostly a blue sky and warm temperatures.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Craig McCormack, a veterans advocate with Volunteers of America, says a few words during the Memorial Day Service at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery on Monday.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Patricia Ey, lays a rose at the base of the Vietnam Memorial in honor of a fallen soldier during Monday’s Memorial Day Service at Iris Park.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Butch Crim salutes during the Memorial Day Service at the Greenmount Veterans Memorial at Greenmount Cemetery on Monday.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
After firing a salute Byron Dare with the honor guard stands during taps at the Vietnam Memorial in Iris Park during the Memorial Day Service on Monday.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
Tony Madril, left, commander of American Legion Post No. 28, and Fred Riedinger, Chaplin at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Durango, drop a wreath off of the 9th Street bridge into the Animas River in memory of service members who have died at sea following the Memorial Day Service at the Greenmount Cemetery on Monday.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald
