LIHUE — Girl Scouts of Hawaii from different troops on the island sewed lei on Saturday at Kukui Grove Center using material the Scouts collected individually or were dropped off by community members.
The lei are for gravesites at Kauai Veterans Cemetery in Hanapepe that will be decorated with lei and an American flag for the Kauai Veterans Council’s annual Memorial Day Service that will start at 10 a.m. on Monday.
The public is invited to join the Kauai Veterans Council and its network of military clubs and organizations in paying respect to those members of the Armed Forces whose final resting place is at the Hanapepe cemetery.
“We started early this morning,” said Mary Lardizabal, the Scoutmaster of Scouting America Troop 168, sponsored by the Kauai Veterans Center, and the musical director of the Kapaa Middle School Ukulele Band that performed at the Kulia I Ka Nu‘u Hawaiian Health Fair Kauai at the Kauai Museum.
“We visited cemeteries and graveyards in the Lihue area and placed flowers created by the Scouts and Cub Scouts,” Lardizabal said. “No one is forgotten.”
Source: The Garden Island
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