SUFFOLK, Va. — On Thursday, volunteers at the Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery began preparing the grounds for its Memorial Day ceremony, among them Virginia Natural Gas employees, Boy Scouts, a Marine and about 150 others.
But they all had one mission: place an American flag in front of every grave.
As the third-busiest state veterans cemetery in the country, with about eight burials per day, the volunteers had a lot of ground to cover —14,449 graves to be exact. Since retiring from the Navy last year, it was Donald Boylen II’s first time volunteering…