Father Honors Son Lost To War By Planting Thousands Of Flags Each Year

The weather was miserable on Cape Cod Saturday morning, but even pelting rain and howling winds couldn’t stop hundreds of volunteers from coming to the Massachusetts National Cemetery to place flags on the more than 70,000 graves for Memorial Day.

This happens in cemeteries across the U.S. every Memorial Day weekend, but there's something special about what happens at this specific cemetery.

It's called Operation Flags For Vets, started by Massachusetts resident Paul Monti after his son Jared Monti, an Army sergeant, was killed in Afghanistan. Jared Monti died during a Taliban ambush in 2006.

Jared Monti was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade as he tried to pull another soldier who'd been badly wounded to safety. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for that act of bravery.