61st Memorial Day Service of Remembrance at Fresno Memorial Gardens

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Memorial Day, we grant those who sacrificed their lives for our liberties and freedom.

Many remembrances and ceremonies volition beryllium taking spot crossed the federation and present successful the Valley for Memorial Day.

Monday morning, the Fresno Memorial Gardens, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5057 and Central Valley veterans volition clasp its 61st Memorial Day Service of Remembrance.

More than 1,400 full-size American flags volition enactment the avenues of the Gardens arsenic the VFW behaviour its authoritative Memorial Day Program.

The "Avenue of Flags" began much than six decades agone with 35 flags framing the entranceway to the park.

This year's programme begins astatine 11 americium astatine the cemetery located astatine Whitesbridge and Cornelia, conscionable westbound of Fresno.