Many communities, like Anamosa, gathered at local cemeteries and monuments to take a moment out of their Memorial Day to pay tribute to the fallen service members who died in action during the different wars and conflicts, May 26.

The Anamosa American Legion Honor Guard stands at ease prior to participating in the gun salute as part of the Memorial Day service.

Girl Scouts Quinn Sulzner and Grace Lawton place a wreath in front of the Jones County Courthouse Memorial, May 26.

The Anamosa Legion conducts a gun salute before taps are played.

Anamosa High School students Matt Greif and Seth Countryman perform solemn taps, with their trumpets echoing its melody.

Service members, past and present, salute to the fallen as the taps can be heard.

During a march, the Anamosa veterans organizations and Girl Scouts proceed from the Jones County Courthouse to Riverside Cemetery in Anamosa.

Several Anamosa American Legion Arthur McCullough Post 13 members ride in its dedicated float as part of the march.

The Anamosa Girl Scouts proudly lead the public in the “Pledge of Allegiance.”

Becky Dirks-Haugsted leads the Memorial Day services in Riverside Cemetery in Anamosa.

Anamosa student Olivia Rose reads “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae in 1915.

Girl Scouts Quinn Sulzner and Grace Lawton place a wreath on one of the white crosses in Riverside Cemetery.