Video by Daryl Vaca | Arlington National Cemetery | 05.27.2024
Memorial Day weekend at ANC includes placing flags at grave sites, presenting flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Memorial Day Observance. Most of all, it involves honoring those that we lost in the name of service and freedom. It's our honor to care for their final resting place. (U.S. Army video by Daryl Vaca / Arlington National Cemetery)...
Video by Daryl Vaca | Arlington National Cemetery | 05.23.2024
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) place U.S. flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 23, 2024. This was the 76th anniversary of Flags In where over 1,500 service members placed more than 260,000 flags at every gravesite and niche column at Arlington National Cemetery....
Video by Sgt. Brandon Muniz | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” | 05.29.2023
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) provide support to the 2023 National Memorial Day Observance and Wreath Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., a wreath ceremony at the JFK Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, a 21 Gun Salute at Whipple Field on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., and in the Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC, on May 29, 2023....
Video by Sgt. Oscar Toscano | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” | 05.25.2023
Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) place American flags at headstones during "Flags In” at the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 25, 2023. Each year prior to Memorial Day, around 260,000 flags are placed at each headstone in the cemetery honoring the nations’ fallen heroes. The Old Guard has been placing flags for over 55 years covering 639 acres of......
Video by Sgt. Brandon Muniz | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” | 05.25.2023
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), along with service members from across the Armed Forces, place 260,000 American flags at headstones within Arlington National Cemetery, Va., May 25, 2023. The Old Guard has the distinction of being the ceremonial unit who places the flags at every headstone and niche for the past 55 years. Every year, over a thousand Old Guard......
Video by Chad McNeeley | Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs | 05.25.2023
On May 25, Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks and her staff visited Arlington National Cemetery to place flags at the base of headstones in honor of Memorial Day....
Video by Sgt. Jacob Holmes | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” | 05.26.2022
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in “Flags-In”, where Soldiers placed U.S. flags at the headstones and niche of service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. Over 250,000 flags were planted at the final resting place of our Nation's fallen....
Video by Spc. Brandon Muniz | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” | 05.26.2022
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in “Flags-In”, where Soldiers placed U.S. flags at the headstones and niche of service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. Over 250,000 flags were planted at the final resting place of our Nation's fallen. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Brandon Muniz)...
