2018 Memorial Day Flowers Recap

2018 Memorial Day Flowers Recap

Over the past two weeks, we’ve been receiving stories & photos from customers who participated in the Memorial Day Flowers event, passing out roses to honor our U.S. service men and women who are no longer with us. We're honored to be a part in such an important event, and we hope you'll be inspired to participate next year!

 

 


 

 

The Little Flower | San Diego, CA

 

We brought the donated roses to Fort Rosecrans Cemetery and asked the Boy Scouts and others to help place the roses by the head stones of the Veterans. The Little Flower, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts did exactly that until the roses were all placed.

 
 
 
 
 

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Southern Scent Florals | Charleston, SC

 

We had the privilege on Memorial Day 2018 to be a board the USS Yorktown in Charleston, South Carolina. Honoring our fallen heroes this memorial day aboard the USS Yorktown, we gave out 750 roses compliments of Mayesh Wholesale attached with an American flag each rose had a commemorative card with the name and antidote of a South Carolina  revolutionary war service man who selflessly served our state and our country.

 

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The Love Sparrows | Lake Arrowhead, CA

 

Our favorite moments included:
1. A veteran came and told us how he likes to hear "I'm sorry for your loss" on veterans day, because it's a day that he's thinking of all of his fellow friends/soldiers that didn't make it home.
2. A Veteran came and told us when he realized we were handing out flowers for free just to remind people of the importance of veterans day, he got chills....which in turn of course gave us chills.

 

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Wild August | Mission, TX

 

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 172 in Mission, Texas visited Laurel Hill Cemetery,  San Jose Gabriel Cemetery, Granjeno Cemetery, Rio Grande Valley Veteran's State Cemetery and Freddy Gonzalez Veteran's Home to give or place flags and roses on Memorial day. McAllen Unit 37 visited Roselawn Cemeteryand Texas Veteran's Cemetery.

 

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Naylor Creation & Design | Canby, OR

 

I started my floral celebration on Friday by distributing flowers to my coworkers who had loved ones who served.  Then on Saturday my husband and I visited some family grave-sites to pay our respects.

On Memorial Day, I set up shop at Zion Memorial Park Cemetery, while the local chapter of the American Legion had their annual service.  I passed out flowers to veterans and loved ones, but most of my time and flowers were spent placing flowers on veterans’ headstones that had no flowers.

 

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Cactus Mart | Morongo Valley, CA

 

Since we are a popular stop for travelers heading to and from Joshua Tree National Park and the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, we handed out the complimentary roses to our visitors all weekend long. Locals commented on the sentiment and Marine families thanked us for the support.

 

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Arlene's Flowers | Richland, WA

 

There were Memorial services given at both funeral homes; we took 3/4 of the roses to Einan’s at Sunset in Richland, and 1/4 to Mueller’s in Kennewick.

 

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Sterling Rose Design | Avon, OH

 

My family and I participated in the Memorial Day service at St. Joseph Cemetery in Avon, Ohio. We attended mass at the cemetery. After mass we handed roses to families to place on their loved ones graves and then we also placed roses.

It is such a simple and powerful morning. Its our privilege to participate in honoring our fallen and their families.

 

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Florian Floral | Prescott Valley, AZ

 

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