Multimedia Release: Kodiak-based Coast Guardsmen beautify Kodiak City cemetery

[The Patriot]

KODIAK, Alaska - Kodiak-based Coast Guardsmen begin an ongoing beautification project at the Kodiak City cemetery June 10, 2011, in an effort to restore veterans gravesites to their original condition.

Several gravesites are overgrown with weeds and moss and their headstones and crosses are in need of repair.

U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

KODIAK, Alaska - Shenita Williams, a Coast Guard spouse, pulls moss and weeds from a gravesite June 10, 2011, at the Kodiak City cemetery during a beautification project.

Kodiak-based Coast Guardsmen began an ongoing community service project to restore veterans gravesites by raising headstones, pulling weeds and replacing dilapidated wood crosses.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

KODIAK, Alaska - Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Jennifer Elliott, left, and Martha Bailey, a Coast Guard employee, both with Base Support Unit Kodiak, fill in a veteran's gravesite with fill dirt June 10, 2011, at the Kodiak City cemetery after the headstone sank into the ground.

Through the efforts of a beautification project, Elliott, Bailey and other Kodiak-based Coast Guardsmen helped restore several gravesites to their original condition by removing moss, weeds and raising headstones.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

KODIAK, Alaska - Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Joseph Zrelak, a maritime enforcement specialist with Base Support Unit Kodiak, examines his cleanup efforts at a veteran's gravesite June 10, 2011, at the Kodiak City cemetery.

Zrelak and other Kodiak-based Coast Guardsmen began an ongoing beautification project at the cemetery in an effort to restore gravesites to their original condition.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

For more information contact Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen at 907-321-4505.

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