Amazing Memorial Day Tribute at Louisiana Capitol

Over Hundreds of flags have been planted outdoors the state capitol to honor 11,000 fallen navy members from the Bayou State.

That is wonderful drone footage of the Memorial Day show.

Over the weekend, the names of all 11,000 navy members from Louisiana who’ve died serving our nation have been learn aloud.

Army members of the family and associates and lots of of others gathered to plant the flags on the garden of the capitol with every one representing a fallen hero.

Blue Star and Gold Star households urge everybody to pause on this big day to recollect these we now have misplaced.

Gold Star member of the family Billy Jo Alexander informed WAFB “That was one of many guarantees that I made to myself when he handed with that, I might at all times honor him and bear in mind him, and one of the best ways that I can do that’s simply to come back and spend my Saturday planting these flags and to show individuals about Memorial Day and train my children what it’s.”

Alexander misplaced her brother in Iraq and she or he desires us all to recollect Memorial Day is just not in regards to the kickoff to summer season. She says it’s going to at all times be a time to honor our fallen heroes. She desires us to show our kids about this big day to allow them to perceive what a somber day that is.

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