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Photos: Gone but never forgotten

Published 4:59 am Sunday, December 18, 2016

By Megan Pacer

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion From left to right: Joe Coup, Greg Fite and Ray Nickelson fire shots just before taps is played at a wreath-laying ceremony Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 at the Kenai Municipal Cemetery in Kenai, Alaska. Bob Myles, a member of the VFW and American Legion, coordinated the peninsula's first wreath ceremony through the Wreaths Across America program. Community members hung wreaths on the graves of veterans in the Kenai and Soldotna cemeteries, and Myles is working to expand the event to more peninsula cemeteries next year.
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Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion From left to right: Joe Coup, Greg Fite and Ray Nickelson fire shots just before taps is played at a wreath-laying ceremony Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 at the Kenai Municipal Cemetery in Kenai, Alaska. Bob Myles, a member of the VFW and American Legion, coordinated the peninsula's first wreath ceremony through the Wreaths Across America program. Community members hung wreaths on the graves of veterans in the Kenai and Soldotna cemeteries, and Myles is working to expand the event to more peninsula cemeteries next year.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion From left to right: Joe Coup, Greg Fite and Ray Nickelson fire shots just before taps is played at a wreath-laying ceremony Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 at the Kenai Municipal Cemetery in Kenai, Alaska. Bob Myles, a member of the VFW and American Legion, coordinated the peninsula's first wreath ceremony through the Wreaths Across America program. Community members hung wreaths on the graves of veterans in the Kenai and Soldotna cemeteries, and Myles is working to expand the event to more peninsula cemeteries next year.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Jim Halliday of Nikiski hangs a wreath on a steak marking the grave of a veteran Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 at the Kenai Municipal Cemetery in Kenai, Alaska. Bob Myles, a member of the VFW and American Legion, coordinated the peninsula's first wreath ceremony through the Wreaths Across America program. Community members hung wreaths on the graves of veterans in the Kenai and Soldotna cemeteries, and Myles is working to expand the event to more peninsula cemeteries next year.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion A wreath adorns a steak marking the grave of a veteran while volunteers hang dozens more Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 at the Kenai Municipal Cemetery in Kenai, Alaska. Bob Myles, a member of the VFW and American Legion, coordinated the peninsula's first wreath ceremony through the Wreaths Across America program. Community members hung wreaths on the graves of veterans in the Kenai and Soldotna cemeteries, and Myles is working to expand the event to more peninsula cemeteries next year.

A wreath adorns a stake marking the grave of a veteran while volunteers hang dozens more Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016 at the Kenai Municipal Cemetery in Kenai, Alaska. Bob Myles, a member of the VFW and American Legion, coordinated the peninsula’s first wreath ceremony through the Wreaths Across America program. Community members hung wreaths on the graves of veterans in the Kenai and Soldotna cemeteries, and Myles is working to expand the event to more peninsula cemeteries next year.

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