2024 Flags for Fallen Vets at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery

Name: 2024 Flags for Fallen Vets at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Start: 2024-05-26T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-26T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery

Schedule

Sun May 26 2024 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery | San Antonio, TX

Bring your friends, family (including kids!) and coworkers out as we join other volunteers in placing a flag at each gravestone on FORT SAM HOUSTON National Cemetery (127,000 flags!).
Register at https://tinyurl.com/4phzs59u and select FORT SAM HOUSTON National Cemetery and the number of spots (for whoever in your family/group that can receive flags.). Put WVSA for the group, and on the dropdown menu select "PC/PF/PI/O/U" which is the section we will lay flags in. The attached map shows these sections on the upper left hand side. If you come in the main entrance, you would take the first left to get to this section. Also, if you would like to help with flag removal on 1 June, please register the number of volunteers that can assist.
Register to participate at https://tinyurl.com/4phzs59u
WHAT: 2024 Memorial Day Flag Placement
WHEN: Sunday, May 26, 2024, 9 a.m.
WHERE: Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery/section PC/PF/PI/O/U
(Flag Removal will be on 1 June, our section is 5/V/6/19).
1520 Harry Wurzbach Road, San Antonio, Texas 78209
VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION:
All volunteers must register to participate at
https://tinyurl.com/4phzs59u. For more information about volunteering or signing up another group, contact Flags for Fallen Veterans Coordinator Russell Cummings at 518-391-9837.
BACKGROUND: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery invite volunteers to place approximately 127,000 small, grave flags on individual gravesites.
Provided by Flags for Fallen Vets (FFFV), the flags will be on display through Memorial Day. Visitors may place flags on gravesites at any time, but for this particular event, volunteers must register with FFFV to obtain flags.
Flags will be cleared from the cemetery on Saturday, June 1 beginning at 9 a.m. Our section will be 5/V/6/19. Volunteers are encouraged to assist and asked to meet at the Assembly Area for parking.
Established in 1937, the 336-acre cemetery Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery richly landscaped grounds serve as a final resting place for many of America’s brave and beloved men and women, including twelve veterans who were awarded the Medal of Honor. Other notables include Captain William Randolph for whom Randolph Air Force Base is named; 17 members of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment who were executed for their participation in the 1917 Houston Riot; LTC Karen Wagner, a casualty of the 9/11/2001 plane crash at the Pentagon; and 27 Buffalo Soldiers from the 9th and 10th Cavalry, who served during the Indian Wars era.