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Scouts help veterans groups place flags at cemetery
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Ginny Parsons and her daughter Carli, age 8, place American flags on the headstones of veterans, Thursday evening at the Great Bend Cemetery. Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts joined members of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars in placing thousands of flags prior to the Memorial Day weekend. Carli is a Brownie in Troop 11135. - photo by Susan Thacker
Great Bend’s Veterans of Foreign Wars post family and American Legion post family worked with local scouts Thursday to place U.S. flags on graves in the Great Bend cemeteries and the two county-owned cemeteries north of town.