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Memorial Day preparation

Published: May 25, 2012 11:17AM

People walk through a portion of the Boston Common covered with American flags, in Boston, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Relatives and volunteers planted the 33,000 flags in the historic park in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

People walk through a portion of the Boston Common covered with American flags, in Boston, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Relatives and volunteers planted the 33,000 flags in the historic park in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

People walk through a portion of the Boston Common covered with American flags, in Boston, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Relatives and volunteers planted the 33,000 flags in the historic park in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Flags honoring the 33,000 Massachusetts residents that died from the Civil War to present day adorn a field at the Boston common for the Remembering & Honoring our Massachusetts Heroes ceremony, Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Patrick Whittemore) Color guard members Army Spc. Tristan Bard, left, and Army Spc. Christopher Graham honor the memory of the 33,000 Massachusetts residents that died from the Civil War to present day as they kneel at the end of the Remembering & Honoring our Massachusetts, Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Patrick Whittemore) Color guard members Army Spc. Tristan Bard, left, and Army Spc. Christopher Graham honor the memory of the 33,000 Massachusetts residents that died from the Civil War to present day as they snapped a salute at the end of the Remembering & Honoring our Massachusetts, Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Patrick Whittemore) The American Legion Auxiliary Unit #73, of Shamokin, Pa., with the help of Boy Scout Troop 250 of Clarks Grove UMC places a "field of flags" at the Veteran's Memorial on Lincoln Street in Shamokin, Northumberland County,Monday, May 21, 2012 in preparation for Memorial Day. The scouts installed over 200 flags on Monday evening. Pictured from left are scouts Dexter Haight, Robert Kulish, Caleb Stahl and Nick Davis. (AP Photo/The News-Item, Mike Staugaitis) Soldiers with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, or "Old Guard," check Section 60 to make sure each grave has a flag in honor of Memorial Day, during the annual "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Air Force Major Terry Dutcher, of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, visits the grave of her son, Army Corporal Michael Avery Pursel, who died serving in Iraq in 2007 at age 19, surrounded by flags placed by soldiers at each grave for the annual "Flags-In" in honor of Memorial Day, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Air Force Major Terry Dutcher, of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, visits the grave of her son, Army Corporal Michael Avery Pursel, who died serving in Iraq in 2007 at age 19, surrounded by flags placed by soldiers at each grave for the annual "Flags-In" in honor of Memorial Day, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Air Force Major Terry Dutcher, of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, touches the headstone of her son, Army Corporal Michael Avery Pursel, who died serving in Iraq in 2007 at age 19, surrounded by flags placed by soldiers at each grave for the annual "Flags-In" in honor of Memorial Day, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) In Section 60, where many of the soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried, Captain James Leggett, of Alexandria, Va., with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, or "Old Guard," places flags before each grave in preparation for Memorial Day, during the annual "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Soldiers with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, or "Old Guard," place a flag before each grave in preparation for Memorial Day, during the annual "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Reilly Brown, 6, of Erie, Pa., puts flags on the graves of veterans buried at the Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery in Harborcreek Township, Pa. on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Brown's grandfather served in the U.S. Navy. (AP Photo/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan) Katherine Woodhouse, left, and Connor Appel, both Colfax, Wash., High School FFA members, each insert a cross labeled with the name of a veteran buried in that row of graves in preparation for Memorial Day visitors, Thursday, May 24, 2012, at the Colfax, Wash. Cemetery. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Dean Hare) Special forces veteran John Householder looks through some of the 58,000 names of fallen soldiers on the traveling replica of the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on exhibit at the West, Texas fair grounds, Thursday, May 24, 2012. Householder served three tours while serving in Vietnam during the early 1960's. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte) Buttons featuring the likeness of fallen U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, left, and his brother Brian Luis Arredondo, right, who took his own life following the death of Alexander, are attached to an American flag in front of thousands of flags planted in the Boston Common, in Boston, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Relatives and volunteers planted the 33,000 flags in the historic park in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War. Alexander was killed in 2004 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) A worker trims between grave markers at the New Bern, N.C., National Cemetery on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The cemetery will host services on Saturday and Monday in observance of Memorial Day. (AP Photo/New Bern Sun Journal, Byron Holland) Ilse McClintock of Wood River, Ill., places the American flag on the grave of her late husband Tuesday May 22, 2012, in Roselawn Memory Gardens cemetery in Bethalto, Ill. McClintock met her husband, who died five years ago on the Saturday before Memorial Day, when he was stationed with the U.S. Air Force in Germany during the Korean War. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, John Badman) U.S. Army Sgt. Brian E. Gibbons from Glendale, Ariz., salutes during the Memorial Day Honor Guard Ceremony at Knight Field, a U.S. military base in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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