Memorial Day Tribute

SLP2001052702- 27 MAY 2001- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA: Boy Scout Joe Ranzetta, 14 of Troop 661, makes sure an American Flag he is placing on graves, is secure on the grave of Vietnam pilot Michael Blassie, at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in south St. Louis County, Missouri, May 27, 2001. Approximately four thousand Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts spent the afternoon placing American Flags on all of the 110 thousand graves in the cemetery in time for Memorial Day. Blasie is the pilot whose remains were in the Tomb of the Unknowns and were identified using DNA in 1998. rlw/bg/Bill Greenblatt UPI