PHOTOS | Veterans, community members help restore gravesite as part of Military Appreciation Week – The Daily Collegian

PHOTOS | Veterans, community members help restore gravesite as part of Military Appreciation Week  The Daily Collegian

A total of 15 volunteers, many of them veterans or members of the Nittany Lion Battalion, Penn State A total of 15 volunteers, many of them veterans or members of the Nittany Lion Battalion, Penn State's Army ROTC program, converged on the Pine Hall Cemetery Saturday to help clean gravestones and plant flags and grave markers during a veteran gravesite cleanup hosted by Penn State as part of Military Appreciation Week. According to Mary Fisk, a member of Penn State's Military Appreciation Events Committee, the cleanup is part of a multiyear project to restore all of Pine Hall's veteran gravesites, with sections of the cemetery set to be worked on during future Military Appreciation Weeks.

"We're going to stick with it until it's all done," Fisk said. Olivia Hamm, 19, of Red Mill, Pa., brushes grime off a gravestone during a veteran gravesite cleanup hosted by Penn State at Pine Hall Cemetery as part of Military Appreciation Week in State College, Pa., on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026. Hamm, a second-year studying civil engineering, is a member of Penn State's Army ROTC program and participates in its Lions Guard. Elijah Carlson, 28, of Pottstown, Pa., brushes off a gravestone during a veteran gravesite cleanup hosted by Penn State at Pine Hall Cemetery as part of Military Appreciation Week in State College,