Volunteers plant flags at all of the veterans' graves at the Greenmount Cemetery.
Terry Saxson, a Vietnam War veteran, organized the flag-placing event at the Greenmount Cemetery on Saturday morning. He has been coming to plant flags for 22 years. He also serves as the chaplain of Durango’s American Legion Post 28. He says he continues to plant flags every Memorial Day weekend to honor those who fought for America’s freedoms. He places a flag at the grave of Capt. Jeff Kuss, a Durango native and Marine who died June 2, 2016, in a plane crash while he was training with his unit, the elite Blue Angels.
Volunteers placed flags on every veteran’s grave at the Greenmount Cemetery in Durango on Saturday morning. Veterans from all wars except for the Revolutionary War are buried at the cemetery.
Roman Speegle and Ian McCarthy, members of Boy Scouts of America Troup 538, search for veterans’ graves to place flags in honor of Memorial Day at Greenmount Cemetery.
Roman Speegle plants a flag into the ground at a veteran’s grave on Saturday morning at Greenmount Cemetery. The flags are placed near the buried soldiers’ left shoulders, so it is close to their hearts.
Bre Leffard, a volunteer with Volunteers of America, plants a flag at a veteran’s grave on Saturday morning at Greenmount Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day.
Veterans’ graves were decorated with flags in Greenmount Cemetery on Saturday. There are <a href="https://durangoherald.com/articles/225445-memorial-day-to-honor-veterans-with-events">multiple other events</a> honoring the Memorial Day holiday this weekend.
