Over 2,500 unserviceable flags were given a dignified disposal as members of American Legion Post 119 in Greenfield, Ind., joined other local veteran groups for a Flag Day ceremony at La Place Recreational Area in Greenfield, Ind. Photos by Justin Casterline
The American Legion Family members from Jenkins-Vaughan Post 97 were forced to cancel their annual Memorial Day parade in Cardington, Ohio due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they found a new way to observe Memorial Day with their community. The post honor guard carried the colors, followed by a solemn procession, from American Legion Park to Glendale cemetery for a ceremony. All participants followed social distancing guidelines, and the community watched from porches and via livestream on the post’s Facebook page. Photos by Maddie McGarvey
Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to scale back their ceremony and make accommodations for social distancing, American Legion Post 46 in Morehead City, N.C. still hosted Memorial Day observance at Bayview Cemetery to honor the veterans buried there.
Members of Smith-Wever American Legion Post 651 did not want to see Memorial Day pass by without recognition in Sayville, N.Y. Instead of the full-scale community parade they normally host, post members and their families drove through town in a decorated vehicle procession in order to comply with social distancing guidelines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photos by George Etheredge
Members of American Legion Post 302 in Oconto Falls, Wis., reinvented their Memorial Day observance to align with social distancing guidelines due to the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. On Monday, May 25, instead of their annual parade, post members stood at the veterans memorial and saluted passers-by from their local American Legion Family and community who drove by in decorated vehicles. Photos by Mike Roemer/The American Legion
Hundreds gathered to place more than 6,600 wreaths on veterans graves as part of the annual Wreaths Across America program at the historical Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira, NY.
