Gallery: Jefferson City VFW Post 1003 Memorial Day Ceremony 2022
Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard and Cole County Sheriff's Department lined up at Riverview Cemetery as flags waved softly in the wind.
Families and individuals gathered on the sidelines near the graves of a fallen sheriff and veteran to begin their Memorial Day honoring those who have died in service.
"We are assembled once again to express sincere reverence," said Scott Englund, VFW Post 1003 commander.
VFW Basinger-Sone Memorial Post 1003 hosted memorial services Monday morning at the graves of Wyman Basinger and Roy Sone, who Post 1003 is named after.
"This grave represents the resting places of many devoted comrades who served in all wars," Englund said. "By their services on land, on sea and in the air, we honor them, for the flag of our nation still flies over land of free people."
After a prayer at each ceremony, members of VFW Post 1003 placed flowers, an American flag and a wreath at the graves of Basinger and Sone as a tribute to their "devotion and everlasting remembrance."
Wyman Basinger was a sheriff in the Cole County Sheriff's Department who died in 1986 from an injury that was caused when his squad car was struck while he was traveling to an emergency call.
Roy Sone served with the Marines during World War I and was killed in action in 1918 while serving with the Infantry in France.
The ceremonies concluded with a gun salute proceeded by taps.
Englund said VFW Post 1003 hosts this ceremony every Memorial Day because "that's what Memorial Day is all about."
"It's to honor veterans that served and lost their lives," he said. "It's important that we remember and we honor them."