FAYETTVILLE, N.C. -- For the second year, about 100 teenagers and children from Fayetteville North Carolina Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, bleary-eyed and bundled up, gathered on a chilly Saturday morning at the Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery just outside Fort Bragg. They came to honor fallen heroes by placing flags on every grave for Veteran's Day, a way to honor the living as well as the dead.

Young men and women from eight Mormon Church wards and branches assembled on Saturday, Nov. 7, to prepare the cemetery for the Nov. 11 commemoration.

The youths placed flags in less than an hour, where cemetery staff estimated it would have taken them many hours.

"Just when you think this world is falling apart, you see something like this, and it gives you hope," said cemetery manager Rob Cox.


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