Memorial Day celebrations continued Monday throughout the state.
Missourians traveled to Jefferson Barracks where Boy Scouts placed flags at all 280,000 graves. Ceremonies also took place at all the state’s Veterans Cemeteries, and thousands have turned out at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City and at a Memorial Day celebration Sunday at Union Station in Kansas City.
Memorial Day became a national holiday in 1971.
Tammy Elkins of Fenton, Missouri spends her first Memorial Day at her fathers grave site at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Tammy Elkins of Fenton, Missouri spends time next to her fathers grave site on Memorial Day at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Confederate flags line grave sites in the Confederate section of Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on Memorial Day in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
A visitor to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery pauses in front of a grave site for a loved one on Memorial Day in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Members of a Civil War reenactment group watch a Memorial Day Service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Members of the Amercian Gold Star Mothers, pause as an American flag passes during the beginning of a Memorial Day Service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
A Memorial Day service is underway at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery near the grave site of Lt. Michael Blassie in St. Louis on May 30, 2016. Blassie died when his A-37B Dragonfly was shot down near An Lộc in what was then South Vietnam in 1972. Blassie’s remains were designated as the unknown service member from the Vietnam War, A CBS News report in January 1998 claimed the Vietnam unknown was Blassie based on mitochondrial DNA testing. On July 10, 1998 Blassie’s remains were transported to his family in St.Louis. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
