Several thousand volunteers are slated to fan out Saturday to place miniature American flags alongside nearly 225,000 graves at Riverside National Cemetery as part of a Veterans Day tribute.
“Paying tribute to those buried at Riverside National Cemetery is truly an honor we should all take great pride in,” Brennan Leininger of Garden Grove-based Honoring Our Fallen said.
The flag walks are set to begin at 8 a.m. in front of the cemetery Amphitheater. Volunteers will leave from there to canvass all 70 sections of the hallowed grounds to plant the Stars & Stripes.
The all-volunteer effort is expected to run three to four hours.
Flag retrievals are set for Tuesday morning.
The walks, first organized in 2012, are conducted not only on Veterans Day but also Memorial Day weekend. Both were nixed in 2020 because of the COVID lockdowns but returned in 2021.
A variety of organizations typically have members participating, including the Boy Scouts, police Explorers, Civil Air Patrol cadets, union workers and their relatives.