On Memorial Day, each gravesite of the more than 260,000 U.S. service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery will have a small American flag carefully positioned exactly one boot's length away from the headstone. The flags were placed by 1,500 soldiers from the Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, better known as The Old Guard.
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Sgt. Junga served tours of duty in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division. A distant relative is buried at Arlington, but he said none of the soldiers he served with in Afghanistan was laid to rest there. He said friends outside Washington asked him to place an American flag on the graves of people they knew.
The regiment has carried out the tradition, known as “Flags In,” just before Memorial Day every year since 1948, when it was designated as the Army’s official ceremonial unit. Staff Sgt. Christopher Anderson was among those placing the flags. He was seriously wounded in April 2012 when an improvised explosive device detonated near him four months after he arrived in Afghanistan as a young soldier with the 2nd Infantry Division. Walking among the headstones at Arlington and reading the names of the fallen soldiers is always a sobering experience, he said.
Memorial Day has taken on a whole new meaning for his family, Sgt. Moriarty’s sister Rebecca Moriarty Davis said in a telephone interview. Although the family is from Texas, Ms. Davis now lives in Alexandria so she can visit her brother regularly. “He would love that people are barbecuing. He’d be right there next to them having a beer,” Ms. Davis said.
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