Every year a group of volunteers places red and white carnations at the graves of veterans the day before Memorial Day at Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood. This year, about 150 volunteers placed roughly 50,000 pairs of carnations at the cemetery.
The tradition lives on at Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood, where Ruben Rocha for more than a decade has organized a group of volunteers who, on the Sunday before Memorial Day, place red and white carnations at the graves of veterans.
The red carnations symbolize the blood soldiers shed; the white ones represent the “peace” they have achieved. Ruben started the volunteer group 12 years ago with about 1,000 pairs of carnations. By 2019, the group grew big enough to cover the more than 80,000 gravestones at the cemetery.
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