Les Taylor, of Gray, a Korean War Veteran, salutes as the National Anthem is played by the Gray-New Gloucester band inside the Lunn-Hunnewell AMVETS Post No. 6 in New Gloucester Monday morning after threats of rain forced the cancellation of the parade.
Members of the Kora Temple Legion of Honor Color Guard, Highlanders and others look into the sky as a Civil Air Patrol plane flies over Saturday morning's Memorial Day celebration at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston.
Larry Gilbert Sr., a Vietnam Veteran from Lewiston, places flags on the left side of veterans graves at Mt. Hope Cemetery Wednesday afternoon. About two dozen volunteers placed over 1,000 flags in the Lewiston cemetery. After a mass email to groups and organizations from Lewiston's city clerk to help honor veterans, board members of the Liberty Festival organized and promoted it. Others have joined in to do the same at other local cemeteries. The city paid for the flags.
