May 27, 2021 - Soldiers from the U.S. Army 3d U.S. Infantry
Regiment (The Old Guard), along with service members from
all armed forces service branches, place over 265,000 U.S.
flags at every gravesite, columbarium court column, and
niche wall column as part of Flags-In at Arlington National
Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
For more than 50
years, soldiers from The Old Guard have honored our nation’s
fallen military heroes by placing U.S. flags at the
gravesites of service members buried at both Arlington
National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
National Cemetery just prior to the Memorial Day weekend.
For the first time in 20 years, members from the U.S. Marine
Corps, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast
Guard placed flags alongside soldiers from The Old Guard
across the 639 acres of Arlington National Cemetery.
