BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) – Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars spent Saturday helping to clean up, and give back across the Suncoast and nationwide.
It was all part of the VFW’s annual Day of Service to help improve the quality of lives in the communities in which they work and live. More than a dozen volunteers from various military branches set their sites of the Historic Palma Sola Cemetery in Bradenton, which serves as the final resting place for military veterans dating back to the Civil War.
“It was really a cemetery in bad shape, especially after last year’s hurricanes, and we wanted to do our part to give back,” said Ian Brooks-Miller, VFW Post 10141 Commander. Brooks-Miller, along with dozens of other volunteers, spent the day cleaning up debris, along with placing new flags at the grave sites throughout the cemetery. By the end of the event, dozens of bags of waste had been collected. And while those on hand are happy the cemetery, which sits adjacent to the Palma Sola Community Church, will look it’s best for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, they’re asking for donations of grass seed to help replant, and replenish what was ravaged by last season’s relentless storms…