Boy Scout Troop 157 spent Memorial Day weekend honoring veterans at East Lawn Palms Mortuary and Cemetery by placing American flags on their graves Saturday morning and returning Monday at 3 p.m. to collect them.
Mason Van Cleve with Troop 157 and Vice Chief of Inductions for Order of the Arrow, Papago Lodge initiated the service event.
“So we start at 3:00 because that is the national moment of silence across the country. So we’ll all gather, hold our own moment of silence, and then we’ll go around picking up flags and thanking those members for their service as we pick up flags,” Mason said…