A few days before Memorial Day, Joanne Malmstedt sat at a folding table in a parking lot at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, surrounded by trucks and supplies and volunteers, studying several maps in ...
MINNEAPOLIS – Last Memorial Day, wet weather destroyed thousands of flags at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Now, a nonprofit group is trying to replace them, with their work essentially beginning ...
Memorial Day is Monday and local group "Flags for Fort Snelling" has revived the tradition of placing an American flag at every gravestone in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The practice was ...
Hundreds marked Memorial Day at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis on Monday as wreaths were laid on the graves of fallen service members. The service, hosted annually by the Department of ...
MINNEAPOLIS — For Daun and Claire Matzdorff, Memorial Day is a chance to reflect. "You realize how old some of these people were, and you just wonder what their lives were like," Daun said, walking ...
A Minnesota-born U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in the line of duty last month was buried at Fort Snelling on Saturday. David Christopher “Chris” Maland, 44, was killed Jan. 20 while working in ...