Basehor Memorial Day Ceremony May 28, 2008
The Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars lined 155th Street with flags and placed flags by veterans' graves Friday at Glenwood Cemetery. They performed the traditional Memorial Day ceremony Monday afternoon at the cemetery.
Bill Golden (left) and Harry Lewis, members of the Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars, place a flag by a veteran's grave Friday afternoon at Glenwood Cemetery. Several members of the Basehor VFW as well as other volunteers helped place the flags in observance of Memorial Day.
Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander Fred Box, front, along with members (left to right) Wilbur Grisham, Dan Stueckemann and Harry Lewis salute the flag after a wreath is placed at the base of the flagpole during a Memorial Day ceremony Monday in Glenwood Cemetery.
Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars member Forrest Tuter plays "Taps" on the bugle while other members raised the flag to full staff during the Memorial Day ceremony Monday at Glenwood Cemetery.
Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars members (left to right) Mike Kline, Leo Kreutzer, Phil Jenkins, Pat Fletcher, Ed Bush, David Sweeny and Bill Golden made up the rifle squad during Monday's Memorial Day ceremony at Glenwood Cemetery. The group, instructed by Hank Nahrebeski (not pictured), performed a 21-gun salute before the flag was raised to full staff.
Recent Basehor-Linwood High School graduate Andrew Stueckemann joined members of the Basehor Veterans of Foreign Wars in placing flags by veterans' graves in Glenwood Cemetery Friday afternoon. Stueckemann will head to the Air Force Academy Preparatory School for training in mid-July.
