{"id":38342,"date":"2026-05-18T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=38342"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:23:34","slug":"strasburg-legion-auxiliary-place-flags-on-graves-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/38342-strasburg-legion-auxiliary-place-flags-on-graves-of-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg Legion Auxiliary Place Flags on Graves of Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Front row \u2013 l to r \u2013 Adeline Brown, Riddick Reed, Shae Vonderheide<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Back row \u2013 l to r \u2013 Skylar Vonderheide, Sarah Wyckoff, Bonnie Lawrence, Abby Brown, Aubrey Brown, Anna Brown and Linda Oakley (PHOTO BY DIANA ARTHUR)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 members of Strasburg American Legion Auxiliary Liberty Unit #289 braved the brisk winds and traveled to area cemeteries on Sunday, and placed 227 flags on the graves of veterans in preparation for Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Auxiliary places the flags a week before Memorial Day to allow early visitors to see the flags on the graves of their loved ones. 88 flags were placed at St. Paul\u2019s Cemetery; 87 flags at Grace Cemetery; 45 flags at Richland Cemetery; and four at Wade Cemetery.\u00a0 Two flags will also be placed at Lookout Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auxiliary members assisting with the placement of the flags included Bonnie Lawrence, Skylar Vonderheide, Sarah Wyckoff, Diana Arthur, and Linda Oakley, plus Junior members Abby, Anna, Aubrey, Adeline Brown and Shae Vonderheide.\u00a0 Also helping was Riddick Reed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front row \u2013 l to r \u2013 Adeline Brown, Riddick Reed, Shae Vonderheide Back row \u2013 l to r \u2013 Skylar Vonderheide, Sarah Wyckoff, Bonnie Lawrence, Abby Brown, Aubrey Brown, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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