GRAVE HONOR FOR SCOUTS LOCAL TROOPS HANDLE HOLIDAY DUTIES WITH RESPECT.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Sean Collins placed the small American flag at the base of the headstone, took a step back from the grave, and gave U.S. Cavalry Private Walter Collins the three-finger Boy Scout salute. ``When I first came to the veterans cemetery as a Cub Scout nine years ago, it was more about how many flags The Many Flags campaign was an initiative by United States President Lyndon Johnson to get US allies in Asia and the Pacific to participate in the Vietnam War in support of South Vietnam. you could stick in the ground the fastest, but not anymore,'' the 15-year-old member of Sherman Oaks' Boy Scout Troop 280 said. ``I've learned to respect the names on these headstones. They fought and died for our country, just like our troops are today. I take my time now.'' With that, the Granada Hills High School Granada Hills Charter High School (Granada Hills High School) is a public, charter, co-educational, secondary school consisting of students in grades 9-12. The school colors are green, black, and white. student moved on to the grave of Lester Allen - placing another small American flag at the foot of his headstone, stepping back, and giving the Civil War veteran the Boy Scout salute. There isn't a more compelling, more moving Memorial Day weekend tribute than the respect 2,000 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Girl Scouts, recreational and service organization founded (1912) in Savannah, Ga., by Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927). It was originally modeled after the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, organizations created in Great Britain by Sir Robert Baden-Powell during from every area of this city paid early Saturday morning to the 84,000 veterans buried at the Los Angeles National Cemetery The Los Angeles National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in West Los Angeles, at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Sepulveda Boulevard. The cemetery was dedicated in 1889. . If you've driven over the hill, you've seen the thousands of white marble headstones stretching for acres in this veterans cemetery visible from the 405 Freeway in West L.A. Drive by now and you'll see a sight that'll take your breath away - 84,000 American flags at every one of those grave sites. Put there Saturday by the Brownies in Troop 383 from Stoney Point Stoney Point may refer to:
Noun a member of the senior branch of the Scouts from Troop 280 in Van Nuys and Troop 22 in Woodland Hills, and Troops 99, 446, 226 and 252 in Chatsworth and Canoga Park; and dozens of other troops from all over this city. Many of them, like the 40 Scouts in Troop 188 from Eagle Rock, made a special visit after the ceremony to some of the grave sites of the 14 Medal of Honor recipients Others went looking to pay their respects to the 100 Buffalo Soldiers buffalo soldiers, name given to the African-American U.S. army regiments commissioned by Congress to patrol the American West after the Civil War. Consisting of two infantry and two cavalry regiments, they were the first such units chartered in peacetime. buried here - African-American soldiers who fought in the cavalry during the Civil War. They're buried not too far from Nicholas Earp, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt (Berry Stapp) (born March 19, 1848, Monmouth, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1929, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. frontiersman. He worked in the 1870s as a police officer in Wichita and Dodge City, Kan., where he befriended the gunmen Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. Earp's father, and a couple of war dogs from Vietnam - Bonus and Blackout - buried with their handlers. For 45 minutes, more than 2,000 kids in Scouting uniforms fanned out over this 114-acre cemetery to make sure every last veteran had a flag at his or her grave site this Memorial Day. ``I've seen a lot of things that have made me proud to be a veteran, but this event makes me the proudest,'' said 81-year-old Joe Puente, sitting in his wheelchair watching his two Boy Scout grandsons, Joshua and David, place flags at 20 grave sites. No school history book or war movie can teach these kids what 45 minutes in this cemetery on Memorial Day weekend teaches them. ``Sure, you know from books and movies that many people died fighting for our country, but then you come out here, see all these graves, and it really hits you just how many died,'' said Jenna Hazard, 15, a Venture Scout in Woodland Hills Troop 22. It never fails, says troop leader Bridget Porter, standing at the check-in table. Once you've walked these grounds with a flag in your hand on Memorial Day weekend, you never forget the feeling. ``I came out here as a Brownie in the 1950s to put flags on the graves, and I still come back every year,'' she said. ``You don't forget.'' The two Boy Scouts stood nervously behind the outdoor stage waiting for the speeches to be done. Waiting for their turn to pay their respects. Matt Bronstein, an 11th-grader at Agoura High, and Brian Sears, a freshman at Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame High, had never met each other before Saturday morning, but in a few minutes they would take the stage as one. No Memorial Day ceremony can end without taps being played. And these two Valley boys had been given the honor of playing it in front of more than 3,000 people who had come to this cemetery to honor the veterans buried here. Bronstein and Sears lifted their trumpets to their lips, and blew taps slowly, beautifully. Like 15-year-old Sean Collins, standing over a few dozen Civil War grave A war grave is a place where war dead are buried. It may contain either a combatant or a civilian. Although the victim does not need to die directly from enemy action, the main reason for calling a grave a war grave is that the death occurred as a result of active service by the sites, giving the cavalrymen buried there the Boy Scout salute. With respect. Taking their time. Dennis McCarthy, (818) 713-3749 dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Seven-year-old Nicole Williams of Chatsworth, clutching a bundle of small American flags, salutes on Saturday after placing one at a veteran's headstone at Los Angeles National Cemetery in West Los Angeles
(2 -- color) Vet Joe Puente, center, joins grandsons Joshua, left, and David, both Boy Scouts, to watch the placement of the flags. (3 -- color) Matt Bronstein, left, and Brian Sears play taps at the ceremony at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Saturday. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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