TAUNTON
VETERANS’ MEMORIAL MARKERS
Join the Magnificent Seven
Help Honor Taunton’s Veterans
For seven dollars ($7.00) a permanent marker can be placed on the final resting place of an honored Veteran of U.S. military service. It’s a saucer-sized aluminum disc with a flag holder and the words “VETERAN - ARMED FORCES – UNITED STATES.” It is flat and held in place by a spike on the back. It will be pushed flush into the ground against the side of the head stone (or in the space where a stone should be). Flags can be removed for cemetery maintenance, mowing, and timely replacement and volunteers who flag these graves every year will need neither maps nor memory to find them.
Rhode Island has already done this for its cemeteries, and we hope to do this for the 62 known cemeteries here in Taunton. We are fairly sure Taunton will be the first city in Massachusetts to accomplish this task.
Once these markers are in place, any group of civic-minded people, veterans, service organizations, scouts, seniors or schoolchildren can honor those who have served with flags to mark their resting place. Those who have flagged these burial sites before have always been dependent upon maps and experience of those who did it years before. Once we have them in place, our eager volunteers need only a supply of new flags. We can then add markers as we learn of previously unknown sites. This is how to step up and say “Thank you for your service” in a generous contribution and join the Magnificent Seven.
Any donations by check may be made to; “City of Taunton, VMM”
and mailed to: Dept. of Veterans’ Services
15 Summer Street
Taunton MA 02780
Contacts or questions:
Phone: 508 821-1038
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