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A few weeks ago, volunteers cleaned up the headstones and on Saturday placed almost 500 American flags in preparation for Memorial Day, when the nation remembers those who gave their lives for our freedom. Tampa City Councilman Luis Viera (picured above) told Fox the cemetery being in disrepair a few years ago was saddening and did not represent residents’ values. However, the site now has a historic designation, and officials are using ground-penetrating radar to locate gravesites that are hidden from view.
“Every year we come out here, the firefighters, the Cemetery Society, the Veterans Treatment Court Mentors, Vietnam Veterans of America, different organizations and everyday volunteers come out here in Memorial Day month to clean up this cemetery. As a way of just making sure we honor those American heroes, those who died of natural causes and those killed in action,” Viera explained.
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The Tampa cemetrry cleaned up ahead of Memorial Day is the predominately African American Memorial Park Cemetery on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in East Tampa.
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