(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Peter Lee, 12, from Troop 33 in Los Altos, Calif. places flags at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, Calif., in preparation for Memorial Day ...

WBIR-TV Knoxville. People place flags on graves for Memorial Day. Posted: May 26, 2025 | Last updated: May 26, 2025. The Memorial Day tradition of placing flags on veteran graves started in the 1800s.

Ahead of Memorial Day, a special tradition known as 'flags in' took place at the East Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, where thousands of American flags were placed to honor those who made the ...

The annual Memorial Day parade will begin at 10 a.m. Organizations are also seeking volunteers to place flags at veteran gravesites at the Garden of Memories Cemetery this week.

Typically when flags are ordered to be flown at half-staff that remains in place for the entire day, but under U.S. flag code, Memorial Day observances require the flag to be flown at full-staff ...

Scout Kasper Brent, 11, from Scouting America troop 454, places flags. The Crownsville Veterans Cemetery & Scouting America Baltimore Area Council and River Hawk District held their Memorial Day ...

About 3,500 local scouts planted 90,000 flags ahead of Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood, CA on Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles ...

well, staff say the annual memorial day weekend tradition started decades ago, and now wood national cemetery says they have volunteers coming in from madison to help place flags on 50 acres. IT ...

MURRELLS INLET, S.C. (WMBF) - While many host barbecues and pool parties for Memorial Day, one neighborhood placed thousands of flags to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.

This year, Memorial Day falls on May 26. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has published a document setting out the rules for when it is appropriate to fly the American flag at half-staff.

Every available soldier from the third U.S. Infantry Regiment takes part in "Flags In" just ahead of every Memorial Day weekend. The soldiers place more than 260,000 small American flags ...