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Flag and Grave Markers

Bucks County provides flags and grave markers for Memorial Day observances. These flags and markers are used to decorate the graves of veterans buried in the County. The Department of Veterans Affairs provides the markers free to various organizations which will assume the responsibility of placing them on the appropriate graves. They are also available to individual families requesting them from the department.

Veterans organizations interested in obtaining such flags and markers should submit a request on their official stationary to Department of Military Affairs, Neshaminy Manor Center, Rt. 611 and Almshouse Road, Doylestown, PA 18901.

The following are the types of grave markers available:

• Revolutionary War
• War of 1812
• Indian War
• Civil War
• Spanish-American War
• World War I
• World War II
• Korean Conflict
• Vietnam Era
• Persian Gulf War
• War Veteran

Whoever steals or attempts to steal any veterans' grave marker is guilty of larceny, a felony, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 or to undergo imprisonment for one year or both.

Whoever buys or receives for use as junk or scrap metal any veteran's grave marker or emblem is also subject to the same penalties.