Community Events

Join VFW Post 609 for their National Day-of-Service cemetery clean-up event at the abandoned Methodist-Protestant Cemetery. Under the direction of the Office of Historic Alexandria, volunteers will work together to clean up trash, pick up fallen tree branches, and perform other essential maintenance tasks. Assisting will be volunteers from other cemeteries in the complex. This […]

Join VFW Post 609 for the annual Flags-in-the-Ground event at Alexandria National Cemetery. The kickoff ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. This event invites the community to honor the more than 4,500 interred at the cemetery by placing an American flag at each grave. Among those buried are over 3,900 Union soldiers who lost their […]