Post-Dispatch photos: Monday, May 28, 2012
Date: 5/28/2012 Album ID: 1477541
Photos by David Carson/
Photographs by staff photographers
Michael Banks (left) and his wife Antonia Banks, the couple is separated, talk about the $1.5 million judgement Michael Banks won in their lawyer's office in Clayton on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.  
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Boy Scout troop 674 member Devin Griffith (right), 11, from St. Charles, salutes during the playing of the national anthem at the start of ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on Sunday, May 27, 2012.  Troop 674 joined thousands of other scouts to help place flags at the headstones of veterans during the 63rd  annual Good Turn event before Memorial Day.
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Members of Boy Scout troop 674 out of St. Charles gather for a prayer at the grave one of their former members, Phillip Vinnedge, after they finished placing flags at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on Sunday, May 27, 2012.  Vinnedge, who achieved the rank of Eagle Scout with the troop, was a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan in October of 2010.
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Later brother says Mark Meirink, 22, of Maryland Heights, as turns to leave after visiting the grave of Phillip Vinnedge, of St. Charles, on Sunday, May 27, 2012 at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.  Meirink served with Vinnedge in the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment in Helmand Province in 2010 when Vinnedge was killed by a road side bomb.  Meirink was severely wounded himself several months after Vinnedge died when he stepped on a bomb that blew off the bottom of his right leg.  The flag next to Vinnedge's grave was placed there by his Boy Scout, troop 674 out of St. Charles, with whom Vinnedge achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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