Flags for the fallen decorate the desert in remembrance

All of the 43,000‑plus graves of veterans and their families buried at National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona on Cave Creek Road in Phoenix are dressed with an American flag on Memorial Day. The annual Memorial Day observance at the cemetery, which took place

Monday, May 29, included a 21‑gun salute, “Taps” played by the 108th Army Band of the

Arizona Army National Guard, a proclamation delivered by Gov. Janet Napolitano and the laying of the wreaths by various local veterans’ groups in honor of fallen soldiers.