Some families celebrate Memorial Day weekend with a cookout. Others may take in a parade. Then there’s the progeny of Henry Rivard. “I want these flags standing straight,” Ron Rivard, 82, told the two dozen people, just about all of them relatives, gathered Saturday morning in the parking lot of the Southern Maine Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Springvale. Behind Ron on the bed of his pickup sat bundles upon bundles of small American flags.
Bill Nemitz: Tending To Veterans’ Graves Still Important
Bill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald
Sun, 05/28/2017 - 1:00am
Sections: u.s.
Topics: Maine Cumberland County Portland
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