BOSTON (WHDH) - The moving Memorial Day display featuring more than 37,000 American flags is slated to return to the Boston Common on Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund announced that the Memorial Day flag garden will be on full display after the coronavirus pandemic caused the display to be scaled back last year.
“It just means a lot to us to be able to pull the full display together,” said Diane Nealon, the executive director of the Mass. Military Heroes Fund. “I think our commonwealth needs it; our military needs it.”
Each flag planted in the garden represents every brave Massachusetts service member who gave his or her life defending America since the Revolutionary War.
Staff and volunteers from Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation, as well as the Massachusetts General Hospital Program, will help create the special tribute.
“It is a herculean effort but a labor of love from our community,” Nealon said. “In a non pandemic year, it takes about 600 people to pull this together.”
Flags will begin being planted at 9:30 a.m., marking the 12th year of this tradition.
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