Dave ...That is about the nicest sentiment as I've read this time around....
Our local Monument Garden was designed at inception for UNION (GAR) soldiers coming full term, having retired to St. Cloud Florida.
In fact the town itself was founded for them and called the "Soldier City". Their Building / GAR Hall is still here and as it was in 1911.
There are a number of Span-Am veterans interred, and include WW1, WW2, Korean , Viet Nam & a Gulf war veteran.
There is even 3 Confederate Graves, both the Local GAR & SCV with the VFW decorate the final resting place of these veterans.
They were out there in the rain placing hundreds of small flags...
I went....
"on thy Grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a Mighty Nation"