Memorial Day: ‘Remembering why we are celebrating this day’
Sarah Perry, left, prepares to place an American flag on a grave site of a military veteran. Some 40 students from St. Rose of Lima Elementary School in Jackson Township placed about 700 flags at Holy Savior Cemetery in Manchester Township this week to prepare the cemetery for Memorial Day. (Photo: Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record)
Forty students from St. Rose of Lima Elementary School in Jackson Township placed about 700 flags at Holy Savior Cemetery in Manchester Township Wednesday to prepare the cemetery for Memorial Day weekend.
The school has been placing flags on the grave sites of veterans at the cemetery for about eight years.
Peg Rizzuto, right, principal of St. Rose of Lima Elementary School, asks students questions about Memorial Day before the school places flags at Holy Savior Cemetery (Photo: Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record)
Armed with bundles of flags and maps marked with veteran graves, the students started distributing the flags and got a group history quiz about the origins of Memorial Day by Principal Peg Rizzuto.
Kimora Friend places a flag on a veteran’s grave at Holy Savior Cemetery in advance of Memorial Day. (Photo: Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record)
Ending the quiz, Rizzuto said: “Remembering why we are celebrating this day” is the most important reason for being here.
This story comes to us through a partnership between WITF and The York Daily Record.
This is a decorated veteran’s grave site at Holy Savior Cemetery Wednesday after a flag was place by students of St. Rose of Lima Elementary School. (Photo: Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record)
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