LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Veterans and households gathered at a Palm Mortuary in Henderson to honor fallen army personnel for Memorial Day weekend.
Langston Higbee, the mortuary and cemetery common supervisor, is taking part for the eighth consecutive 12 months.
“We always take the extra steps to make sure they are honored,” Higbee mentioned. “We mark all of the graves of the veterans in our cemetery. We have now over 500 veterans who’ve been laid to relaxation right here.”
Marking their graves, the girls and boys of the Scouts. Their households say that planting a flag is an easy act that reveals the scouts the deeper which means of honoring those that devoted their lives to serving their nation.
“It’s all community service and giving back and remembering our veterans and celebrating Memorial Day, doing a little bit of service instead of a barbecue,” Troop 360 scoutmaster Richard Prisbrey mentioned. “We enjoy coming out and supporting our community this way.”
Flags had been positioned for the Memorial Day ceremony in Henderson. (KLAS)
This Henderson ceremony is greater than 20 years into its working, that is the third 12 months the scouts have joined in, and the recollections proceed to be particular each time.
“Putting flags on your relatives, it’s pretty special,” Prisbrey mentioned. “But seeing the veterans come out, seeing them get to enjoy the day. It’s all good. I wouldn’t miss this if I could, I would always be here.”
After the ceremony, organizations gathered for a useful resource honest to tell veterans of the alternatives out there to them.
Extra ceremonies are deliberate for Memorial Day at Palm’s jap and downtown places.
