We had the duty (an "honor", actually...) again this year, so when we bought a flag for his marker, we bought many extras. In this image you can see my Dad's to the left, and an unknown (to us) vet on the right -- but his marker now has a flag.
As we drove over to the other side of the cemetery to leave a flag for my late uncle, who served as a combat medic in WWII, we'd randomly stop and add flags for some of those veterans whose flag-holders were empty. The veterans groups and boy scouts in that city do put out flags for all the vets who are buried in the "veterans section", but it's the other vets randomly scattered throughout who likely get missed because there's no one left to remember them...
But we took a moment to remember some of them.
Anyway, I think we'll do a web search for a bulk buy of flags next year, and leave twice as many as we did yesterday.
It was a "random act of flags" that felt really good to do.
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