For 31 years, volunteers have set up American flags in the city park in Geneseo.
But they're not ordinary flags you can buy from the store.
They're casket flags. Flags given to a veterans family when they pass on.
It's a sight you'll see three times a year in Geneseo.
Hundreds of flags lining the sidewalks on Memorial Day, the fourth of July , and Veterans Day.
The volunteers began with 50 in1980.
Now they're up to 664 flags.
All honoring a service member no longer with us.
Aisle of Flags President Judy DeBoever says, "We'll honor these veterans forever and we hope, generations after us will still do the same thing.
Those generations turned out like a little brigade for the July fourth flag raising.
"We got people 85 years older on down, I come at the upper end of that, not the top," says volunteer Carl Smith.
The flags honor deceased veterans connected to Geneseo. Each one was given to the veterans family. And DeBoever says the families like them in the open.
"Most of them say that it will just sit in a closet, or it might sit in a display case and they feel good having them displayed up here three times a year."
With the flags up and flying in about an hour the most difficult task for families begins.
The search.
"I'm looking for my first husband's flag, he was in the Korean service, and he died in 99," says Geneseo's Maxine Wahlheim.
She always planned to have her first husband's flag fly. But finding it, becomes a trip into the past.
"You see so many people that you know, and that brings back memories too."
Memories that Wahlheim has collected over 65 years in Geneseo.
The search has become Wahlheims fourth of July tradition. Meaning as much to her now...
"This is wonderful, this is what America's about."
As fireworks did during her childhood.
