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Letter: Troop 14, Lions Club Plant Flags on Memorial Day

Local youth teamed up with veterans to recognize fallen service members during a holiday designed to honor the 1.8 million Americans who have died in our nation's wars.

[Albany Patch would love your 300-word letters to the editor. . This letter came from local Albany Troop 14 Boy Scout Leader Don Ford. The photograph includes some boys from Albany Cub Scout Pack 3.]

All Troop 14 families can be very proud of their boys for a very fine showing  weekend at .

Twelve young men helped our sponsors – American Legion Post 292 and the  – place American flags on the graves of our military men and women buried there, honoring them for Memorial Weekend.

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Doughnuts, bagels and orange slices were served.

The following boys got up early and the vets were very grateful:

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Austin Basye, Grant, Teddy, Carlos, Emmitt, Greg, Aidan and Thomas, Weston, Brandon, Nick and Ouwen.

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