Memorial Day in Loveland

Gene Turlak and an unidentified Boy Scout raise a flagpole Monday morning, May 29, 2017, at Loveland Burial Park and Cole Ingraham, 10, holds the flag as it unfurls. Turlak brought his grandson, 12-year-old Alexander Byrd, to help with the Memorial Day project. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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John Watson of Loveland, who served in combat during the Vietnam War, said he always wears his Army uniform to Memorial Day and Veterans Day events. "I can't let people forget," he said. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Charlie Nash, chaplain of the Associated Veterans of Loveland, salutes the flag as the Junior ROTC color guard from Thompson Valley High School prepares to raise it during the Memorial Day service on Monday, May 29, 2017, at Loveland Burial Park. From left they are Sean Bills, Alex Coleman, Joseph Itzen and (not shown) Abigayle Wing. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Fort Collins resident Robert Wideman, guest speaker at the Memorial Day service Monday, May 29, 2017, at Loveland Burial Park, talks about his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War as members of the Associated Veterans of Loveland color guard stand in the background. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Bart Bartholomew, right, and Max DeCamp place carnations on a wreath for each of the 20-plus members of the Associated Veterans of Loveland who have died in the past year, during the Memorial Day service at Loveland Burial Park on Monday, May 29, 2017. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Ten-year-old Boy Scout Ethan Farland carefully cradles an Americn flag before helping erect it on a pole at Loveland Burial Park early Monday morning, May 29, 2017. Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, leaders and family members perform the service every Memorial Day and Veterans Day. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Boy Scout Cole Ingraham, 10, his mom, Tracey, and Eric Clark work to attach an American flag to a flagpole at Loveland Burial Park on Monday morning, May 29, 2017, as Evan Clark, right, holds the pole. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Eight-year-old Cooper Farland of Cub Scout Pack 190 watches as the flag he had helped attach to a pole rises in the air above him on Monday, May 29, 2017, at Loveland Burial Parik. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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With about 60 American flags raised by 6 a.m. Monday, May 29, 2017, Loveland Burial Park sits in silence before the arrival of people to commemorate Memorial Day and to work on the grave sites of their loved ones. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Illuminated by the taillights of a truck hauling flagpoles, Boy Scouts and the adults participating in the raising of flags at Loveland Burial Park on Monday, May 29, 2017, wait to get to work. (Photo by Craig Young / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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