May 28, 2020
Sign posted by a member of The Wayne M. Kidwell American Legion Post 184 Herndon-Reston explains why there is no Avenue of Flags for Memorial Day Observance 2020 at Chestnut Grove Cemetery in the Town of Herndon.
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Honoring Fallen ‘in a Smaller Way’ in Herndon, Reston Area
Memorial Day 2020
Michael Cutler is 2nd Vice Commander and Avenue of Flags coordinator at The Wayne M. Kidwell American Legion Post 184 Herndon-Reston. In preparation for Memorial Day Observances, he and others usually gathered at dawn at Chestnut Grove Cemetery in the Town of Herndon. In two-person teams, in all types of weather, Veterans and volunteers dropped poles into the ground. Then they raised the 64 casket flags in their care donated by families of interred veterans, creating an Avenue of Flags, a patriotic feature flanking the entrance into the cemetery: 2020 was different.
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