An American flag will be planted at each of the more than 250,000 military graves in Arlington National Cemetery.
will continue their revered tradition of placing an American flag each grave at Arlington National Cemetery, where many fallen soldiers rest.
This Memorial Day, more than 250,000 American flags will be planted at the military graves at Arlington National Cemetery.The process of laying down the flags takes roughly four hours and Master Sgt. Gabriel Hulse from The Old Guard makes it his mission to place as many flags as he can on the graves in the Virginia cemetery.
"You see the name, you see the dates, you see the things that they've accomplished, the sacrifices that they made," he said. He planted a flag there for Memorial Day and got very emotional when seeing his grandfather's resting place.The tradition of placing flags by the graves is known as"Flags In" and it has been going on for more than half a century.
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