Thousands of flags lined Jefferson Square to mark Memorial weekend.  But now the flags have moved to another location in Louisville.

"It's just a lot of heroes gave a lot of lives to keep this country free," said David Crabtree, husband of V.A. employee.

The sight of 25,000 flags in Louisville gives David Crabtree something to think about. He takes a moment with his son to honor all the veterans, police officers, firefighters, and other emergency responders who have died doing their duty.

"The great country that I live in.  This represents the United States of America and it kind of touches you," said Paul Smith, Indianapolis Firefighter.

The locally-based organization Flags-4-Vets is trying to make sure no one is forgotten, with a special honor for a female veteran and the passengers who died aboard United Flight 93.

Gordon Felt lost his brother on 9/11 when terrorists hijacked their plane.

"We have to remember that those we lost, the individuals, over Southwest Pennsylvania, as well as in New York, and in Washington, D.C., and on so many battlefields since that day.  We can't forget the individual people," said Gordon Felt, Pres., Families of Flight 93 Assn.

Mayor Abramson extended one more gesture of remembrance.

"Forty flags in this bundle decorated the graves of U.S. veterans buried right here in Louisville.  They are wrapped with the flags of Kentucky and of the city of Louisville. On behalf of the community, these flags are for the Families of Flight 93," said Abramson.

Saturday's ceremony spoke to adults and children.

"It gives my son the chance to learn the same thing, that freedom comes at a price, here and elsewhere," said Crabtree.

"I've come here, so we can take these flags back to Indianapolis also," said Smith.

If you want to get involved with the Memorial events throughout this long weekend, everyone is invited to arrange the flags to spell "USA" on the Great Lawn, Sunday from 9 a.m. to late afternoon.

Then on Monday, the Mayor will hold a wreath-laying ceremony on the north end of the Great Lawn at noon, followed by a fly-over.

The flags will stay there until Tuesday morning when volunteers will remove them and place the flags on veterans' graves in 17 states.