Hundreds Head To Fort Snelling Nat'l Cemetery For Memorial Day Weekend
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Fort Snelling National Cemetery is considered the fourth-busiest military cemetery in the United States, out of 134.
Crews buried 18 veterans and their family members on Friday alone.
"We inter 5,200-plus a year. We average about 22 a day," said John Knapp, director of Fort Snelling Cemetery. "The summer months, we move up into the 30 and 35 a day."
Knapp says many of the veterans being buried served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and current conflicts.
He says when you come to visit this Memorial Day weekend, make sure you pay attention to the 475 flags flying overhead.
"They are flags that have been donated back to us by some of the people who are interred here," Knapp said. "So in other words, they are casket flags."
