It’s never too late to show respect.

That’s the philosophy of Wheatley Heights resident Ron Wells, who has organized what is believed to be the first Veterans Day ceremony to honor Civil War soldiers buried at a historic cemetery in Wyandanch.

“The notion that someone who served their country and has been buried in their final resting place, that they’re not honored on Veterans Day, breaks my heart,” said Wells, 67, who served as a chaplain for 30 years in the Navy, including in Afghanistan.

The cemetery property, which is owned by Pinelawn Memorial Park and identified on historic maps as Greenlawn Cemetery, is believed to hold the remains of more than 375 Black and Indigenous people who died in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The individuals were reburied on the 11-acre site, w

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