Photos: Memorial Day flag placement at Cedar Memorial Cemetery

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May. 24, 2020 11:29 pm

Dozens of volunteers worked to place American flags at the 7.500 graves of veterans in honor of Memorial Day

Volunteers Joanne McKirgan of Marion (from left), Sylvia Peterson and Kristina Ramey of Cedar Rapids walk with flags to be placed at the headstones of veterans at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteers Sophia Webster, 16, (left) and Jodi Moffitt of Anamosa place a flag at the headstone of a veteran while working their area of Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Sophia Paulsen, 14, of Marion reaches down to place a flag at the headstone of a veteran at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Rick Sampson of Cedar Rapids holds onto his camera while visiting the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. Sampson came to visit his parents' plot which is just a ways off the road but explained he has bad legs so the best he can ever do is to zoom in for a photo. He tries to make it to the cemetery every year to see the flags placed out for veterans, including his father. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

A container of flags ready to be placed is seen at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Sylvia Peterson of Cedar Rapids holds an American flag as she gets ready to place it in the ground at the headstone of a veteran at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Sophia Webster, 16, of Anamosa places a flag in the ground at a veteran's headstone at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Amanda Snyder of Marion holds onto her umbrella as the wind picks up while reading off a list of veteran's names while members of her group place flags for them at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. Snyder, along with family and friends, has been volunteering each year to place flags at the cemetery for six or seven years and has taken an area known to be one of the hardest because of arrangement of headstones and the 500 flags needed for the area. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Kim Suddendorf of Marion separates and American flag from her bundle to place at the headstone of a veteran at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Flags are seen placed at the headstones of veterans at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Robyn Kisling of Cedar Rapids holds a number of American flags while helping her group place them at veterans' headstones at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Robyn Kisling of Cedar Rapids places a flag in the grass near a veteran's headstone at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Sophia Paulsen, 14, of Marion (right of center) looks for the next headstone to place an American flag at while volunteering at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

A flag is seen placed at the headstone of James Robert Hash Sr. at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Sophia Paulsen, 14, of Marion (right) walks alongside graves as Maggie Churchill, 14, of Marion places a flag at the headstone of a veteran at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Kristina Ramey of Cedar Rapids carries a handful of flags while helping to place them out for veterans at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteer Kim Suddendorf of Marion walks with American flags looking for the headstone of a specific veteran on her group's list at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Flags are seen placed at the headstones of veterans at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Volunteers Erin (right) and Maggie Churchill, 14 of Marion work together to find veterans while placing flags for them at the Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, May 23, 2020. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)