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Flags Placed At Graves Of Veterans

By Alissa Silber

Published: May 21, 2016 12:00 am

Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 308 gathered on Thursday, May 19, joined by community residents to replace American flags at the graves of veterans buried in cemeteries across Newtown.

The annual tradition is done to honor departed service members prior to Memorial Day.

Volunteers in attendance included members of the Second Company Governor's Horse Guard, Cub Scout Pack 70, and upcoming high school graduates who plan to enlist in the United States Marine Corps next month.

Lieutenant Ken Fay, Public Affairs Officer for the Second Company Governor's Horse Guard, said the act of placing flags on veterans' graves was done for a few reasons.

"We are trying to honor those who served and to honor the families of those who have served, and we are giving back to the community that has supported us in our time in town," Lt Fay said via email to The Newtown Bee.

Upon meeting at the VFW on Thursday, volunteers were assigned a specific cemetery in Newtown, with at least one VFW member at each location. Large cemeteries, such as St Rose Cemetery in Sandy Hook, as well as every small gravesite on the side of a road, were included in this effort, to ensure every grave received a new flag.

This year, over 1,200 flags, at a total cost of over $1,500, were purchased by the VFW to be distributed. All old flags were collected from gravesites for proper disposal.

To support this Memorial Day tribute, donations can be sent to the VFW PayPal account found on their website vfwpost308.com.

Monday, May 23, 2016: This story has been updated to correctly reflect the delivery of a comment by Ken Fay.

Jay Gill, VFW Post 308 Junior Vice Commander and United States Navy Veteran, salutes the grave of his friend and fellow Vietnam veteran Leslaw Rodnicki after placing a new flag next to the headstone Thursday evening. Mr Rodnicki was a Sergeant in the United States Army who died April 2, 1999. (Bee Photo, Silber)

Donna A. Monteleone Randle, far left, and VFW Post 308 Commander Walter Dolan, second from left, talk to volunteers participating in replacing the flags at the graves of veterans on May 19. The local VFW Post makes a point of placing new flags in all of Newtown's cemeteries each year prior to Memorial Day. (Bee Photo, Silber)

New flags are placed in the upper left-hand corner for every veteran. Pictured is the gravestone of veteran Hubert F. Carey, Private First Class in the Ambulance Corps, who served in World War I. (Bee Photo, Silber)

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