Massapequa Scouts Honor Veterans at the National Cemetery

Massapequa’s Cub Scouts from pack 696, joined Boy Scout Troop 660 placing flags at the graves of veterans at the National Cemetery in honor of Memorial Day.

The boys placed the flags in section “T”, next to each headstone in remembrance of the sacrifice that made our freedom possible. The following week, the scouts gathered to collect the flags from the graves in an organized fashion. Here the scouts are pictured next to a collection bin which would later be lifted by a fork-lift and returned to the main area for flag inspection and counting.

Long Island National Cemetery is located in the community of Farmingdale, on Long Island in Suffolk County, N.Y. It was established because the only other federal cemetery in the area, Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn, had limited acreage available for burials. It became necessary to develop a new facility rapidly, and the land was sufficiently cleared to permit the first burials in March 1937. Moreover, between March and November that year, a total of 426 interments were made. During its first eight years, Long Island National Cemetery held 10,167 interments.

Thank you scouts for your hard work!