Cub Scouts replace flags on Veterans’ graves

CENTRE HALL — Five Cub Scouts from Cub Scout Pack 20 in Centre Hall gathered at the Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery on West Church Street in Centre Hall on May 18 to replaced aging and worn American flags on the graves of U.S. armed services veterans buried in the cemetery.

The Scouts were by Nate Summers, chaplain of American Legion Post No. 779 in Old Fort, who supplied a list of the deceased veterans and the 205 new American flags.

The Legion placed small stickers on each veteran’s gravestone, which helps the Cub Scouts determine where to put flags. Old flags were collected by the Cubs, and will be properly destroyed by the American Legion.

Summers said the American Legion places flags on veterans’ graves all around Penns Valley, and he praised the Cub Scout leaders for involving the boys in this project.

“This a good thing for the boys,” he said. “They learn a lot about the sacrifice of veterans and about community service.”

The Centre Hall cemetery contains one veteran from the War of 1812, 50 from the Civil War, three from the Spanish-American War, 26 from World War I, 80 from World War II, 19 from the Korean War, and seven from the Vietnam War.