American flags are on the graves of 638 veterans in the Bluffton, Beaverdam and Richland Township cemeteries during the Memorial Day season, according to John Wagner of the Bluffton American Legion Post 382. That count is seven higher than last year.

Flags by cemeteries follow:
421 Maple Grove
60 Ebenezer Mennonite
15 Gratz
6 Evangelical Mennonite
9 Reformed Mennonite
9 Zion Mennonite
3 Jefferson Street
62 Woodlawn Beaverdam
16 Pleasant Hill
1 Hezekiah Hubell (1776)
35 Beaverdam
1 Village park