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For my family, Memorial Day is a day to remember our fallen soldiers. Sure, we have the swimming, the BBQ, and the rest, but each Memorial Day starts at the Houston National Cemetery with a backpack full of American flags. We visit our four MoH recipients, visit a handful of family friends, and the pick an area at random to plant the rest of the flags. We stop and talk to strangers who are visiting their own family members and ask the to, “tell us about their veterans.”

We started this about 5-6 years ago with just my daughter and me (1st photo below), but our entourage has grown now to include three families (2nd photo has most of the current group of kids).