PEQUOT LAKES - After placing flag holders and flags on 442 veterans' gravesites in nine area cemeteries for Memorial Day over the past 49 years, Pequot Lakes resident Jack Schmidt noticed something. "During this time I've seen many of the service plaques and headstones deteriorate to the point they were no longer legible," Schmidt said. So Schmidt gathered volunteers last April to clean the plaques and headstones before Memorial Day out of respe…
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