Willamette National Cemetery
We went with the scouts in our church to help plant flags up at the Veteran's Cemetery last week. Sawyer, of course, had a blast. He loved helping Dad plant the flags and saluting each grave!
The crowd of volunteers. We listened to a short 10 min. program before we started planting the flags
The soldiers did a gun salute for us
Some of our scouts...Brandon, Clark, Kyle and Jacob
Helping Dad plant each flag
And a salute to say how grateful we are for our freedom!!
All done with our section.
Sawyer and Daddy
A lovely sunset on our walk back to the car
We went with the scouts in our church to help plant flags up at the Veteran's Cemetery last week. Sawyer, of course, had a blast. He loved helping Dad plant the flags and saluting each grave!
The crowd of volunteers. We listened to a short 10 min. program before we started planting the flags
The soldiers did a gun salute for us
Some of our scouts...Brandon, Clark, Kyle and Jacob
Helping Dad plant each flag
And a salute to say how grateful we are for our freedom!!
All done with our section.
Sawyer and Daddy
A lovely sunset on our walk back to the car
We had so much fun doing this! Definitely a great tradition for our little family! The weather was amazing and Sawyer loved being outside. It was amazing to see all those graves...the many brave soldiers who have fought for our freedom! Willamette National Cemetery is a resting place for over 100,000 veterans and their families. They told us while we were there that it only takes 2 1/2 hours to plant all the flags on the whole cemetery because of all the volunteers. After Memorial Day...it takes the ground keepers 3 days to remove them. Anyone want to come with us next year??
