{"id":1310572,"date":"2019-05-22T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=978722"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:35:37","slug":"volunteers-needed-to-help-place-500-flags-at-rosebud-cemetery-on-friday-ahead-of-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/volunteers-needed-to-help-place-500-flags-at-rosebud-cemetery-on-friday-ahead-of-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers needed to help place 500 flags at Rosebud Cemetery on Friday ahead of Memorial Day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
Denis Dupoint and his great-grandson Colter Vanginkel, 8, salute the flag together during the Memorial Day Service at Rosebud Cemetery at last year’s ceremony.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Air Force veteran Dan LeVan is requesting volunteer support to place flags at the headstones of fallen and deceased veterans at Rosebud Cemetery on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year we have been putting up five hundred plus flags out at the cemetery,\u201d LeVan, a local American Legion member and chairman of its annualMemorial Day ceremony, said. \u201cThat is for those who have fallen in action and then those veterans that are deceased now.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeVan said that the local Rotary Club and Boy Scout Troop members assist with the placement of flags to honor the American heroes but that additional, helping hands were always needed.<\/p>\n

WHEN & WHERE
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Volunteers wishing to assist may simply show up at the Rosebud Cemetery, 3420 S. Grand Ave., in Glenwood Springs at 4 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe start at four and usually with no problems we are done at six,\u201d LeVan explained. \u201cWe have received so much thanks from the community for placing the flags, but we say thank you to the volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeVan was an active duty member in the United States Air Force between 1980 and 1988 and served in the Army National Guard for an additional six years.<\/p>\n

Today, LeVan continues to serve his local community as a school bus driver and by working with Glenwood Springs High School in its Special Education Department.<\/p>\n

LeVan\u2019s father, also a veteran, previously served as chairman of the Memorial Day Ceremony however after his passing LeVan took on the role.<\/p>\n

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
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Following the placement of flags on Friday, the American Legion will host the annual Memorial Day ceremony to honor the fallen and deceased veterans beginning at 11 a.m. on Monday \u2013 Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s ceremony will include a wreath setting, patriotic tribute music, poetry readings and a gun salute carried out by the Glenwood Springs High School Junior Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.<\/p>\n

Additionally, hundreds of motorcyclists ride to the event to pay tribute to the veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor three years now we have been having our own Rolling Thunder,\u201d LeVan said of the motorcyclists. \u201cThere is going to be about 300 bikers this year. They will all park at the cemetery, be there for the ceremony and then all roll out at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to LeVan, the motorcyclists ride to Colorado Veterans Community Living Center in Rifle to honor its retired veterans, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets emotional at times just knowing individuals who have served and then through whatever reason have fallen,\u201d LeVan said. \u201cJust knowing those that did go and serve in the wars \u2026 much appreciative of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American Legion formed after World War I in 1919.<\/p>\n

Although headquartered in Indianapolis, the organization that advocates for U.S. war veterans has local posts across the country. For more volunteer or event information please email LeVan at del@sopris.net<\/a><\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denis Dupoint and his great-grandson Colter Vanginkel, 8, salute the flag together during the Memorial Day Service at Rosebud Cemetery at last year’s ceremony.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Air Force veteran Dan LeVan is requesting volunteer support to place flags at the headstones of fallen and deceased veterans at Rosebud Cemetery on Friday. \u201cEvery year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-09 21:46:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}