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Garden of Flags in the Common

Posted by Hillary Waldron on Thu, May 22, 2014

boston common"Every year, the Massachusetts Military Heroes organization plants a Garden of Flags - 37,000 of them - in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common to commemorate each of the Massachusetts service members who have given his or her lives to defend the United States and our freedom since the Revolutionary War.

Flags will be in place from Wednesday, May 21 through sundown on Monday, May 26.  A ceremony to honor Massachusetts service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan will be held on the Common on Thursday, May 22nd at 10am."

Please click here for information on this and other Massachusetts Military Hero events.

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