Cascade Pacific Council, Scouting America

...He read the name on every marker out loud as he planted a flag firmly in the dirt in front of each one with a salute.

“To us scouts and veterans, people can die twice, not once, twice,” he said. That second death, he explained, happens when a person is no longer spoken of, and when they have been fully forgotten. “That is why we say their name.” ...

Scouts plant 130,000 flags at Willamette National Cemetery for Memorial Day For the last 58 years, scouts have placed flags on veterans’ graves at Willamette National Cemetery near Portland to honor them for Memorial Day.