A share of what you pay goes to local veterans organizations and historical societies — and the amount is printed on your receipt.
Plenty of businesses say they give back. Fewer will tell you how much. We put the donation amount directly on the receipt for the service you paid for, so it is a line item rather than a claim.
A portion of every service — a one-time cleaning, a seasonal planting, a Christmas wreath, an annual care plan — goes to local veterans organizations and historical societies. It is not a rounding-up prompt at checkout or an optional add-on. It comes out of the price you were quoted, and you see the figure without having to ask.
For annual care plans, we will tell you the yearly total on request. Families sometimes want that number for their own records, and it is a reasonable thing to want.
The work itself explains most of it. We spend our days in South Shore burying grounds that have been maintained by volunteers and local historical societies for generations — the kind of organizations that keep a 1727 cemetery legible and standing without much of a budget. Preserving that history is the same instinct that makes someone want a family stone cared for.
The veterans side follows from what is actually in these cemeteries. Kingston's Old Burying Ground holds 22 local veterans of the Revolution. Rockland's Mount Pleasant Cemetery has the G.A.R. Soldiers' Lot and the 1913 monument to the Unreturned Soldiers. Scituate's Cudworth Cemetery holds veterans of several American conflicts. Hull Village Cemetery has local soldiers' graves decorated every Memorial Day. This is not abstract for us.
If your family's plot includes a veteran, we will place flags for Memorial Day or Veterans Day — just ask when you book. There is no charge for it. It takes a minute and it is the right thing to do while we are standing there.
The same applies if you would like a particular date marked. Flowers placed for a birthday, an anniversary, or a service date can be scheduled ahead so the site is ready on the day rather than after it.
Many of the oldest markers we encounter belong to no living family. Nobody is calling to have them cleaned, and they are the ones deteriorating fastest — thin slate and marble from the 1600s and 1700s, in exactly the condition where growth turns cosmetic damage into structural damage.
Supporting the historical societies that steward those burying grounds is the practical version of caring about that. They do the sustained work; we contribute to it from the paid work we do in the same cemeteries.
Tell us the cemetery and roughly where the plot is — and let us know if you'd like flags placed for Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
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