Georgia cemeteries fill with flags, tributes on Memorial Day weekend
Whenever Charlotte Christian sees the sea of American flags atop the graves of United States military veterans buried at Marietta National Cemetery...
Whenever Charlotte Christian sees the sea of American flags atop the graves of United States military veterans buried at Marietta National Cemetery, it hits her. This year's Memorial Day will be especially challenging. Christian, the president of the National Memorial Association of Georgia, which coordinates Memorial Day events at the Marietta National Cemetery, recently lost her mother Josephine Wilson Christian. On Feb. 10, 1944, her mother's brother, Henry Herbert Wilson, an Atlanta native and graduate of Georgia Tech, was shot down and killed over Germany while on a bombing mission.