Where:
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Boston Common
Boston, MA 02108
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Social Good
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/514694022064008
Every year, the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund plants a garden of flags on Boston Common for Memorial Day weekend. This year we will be planting 37,000 flags. Each of the 37,000 flags we plant at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument will represent every brave Massachusetts service member who gave his or her life defending our country since the Revolutionary War. The completed garden is a breathtaking tribute to the true meaning of Memorial Day and a powerful message of community support to the families of these fallen heroes that their sacrifices will never be forgotten.
We literally need all the hands we can get to create this display, and, to stand watch over them throughout Memorial Day weekend. Please consider volunteering your time to this special effort in one of these ways:
• Help us plant flags on Wednesday, May 25th beginning at 1pm. Volunteers will be welcomed for however long their schedules permit assisting us. All flag planting volunteers are encouraged to bring with them a small screwdriver to poke holes in the ground to make inserting the flags a bit easier.
• Attend our name reading ceremony on Thursday, May 26th at 10:30am. During this ceremony, families of Massachusetts service members who have died as a result of active duty service post 9/11/2001 will read the names of their loved ones in front of the flag display in Boston Common. By standing with us during this ceremony, you will let these families know that their loved ones’ ultimate sacrifice is honored and will never be forgotten.
• Sign up for a shift to watch the flags over the weekend. Shifts are in 2 hour increments and will occur from Thursday, 5/26 at 11:00am until Monday, 5/30 at 6pm. Volunteers watching the flags will be assigned in teams and will also be trained on how to educate the community about the display and about the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund
• Help us take the flags down beginning at 6pm, May 30th. Fortunately, this is a much easier effort than planting the flags!
To pre-register for any of these volunteer efforts, please send an email to "[email protected]".
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