The Children's Memorial Flag and Grove Project began in late 1994 when Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele recognized that she and society in general were taking for granted, and becoming numb to, the violent deaths of children that take place in communities in this country. Most children dying by violence go unnoticed and unremembered except by the families who lose them. From this insight Supervisor Steele drew the idea of a Children's Memorial Grove to remember these children, and, somewhat later, a Children's Memorial Flag to fly at half staff for each of these violent deaths, and a national Children's Memorial Day to commemorate all such deaths by flying the Children's Memorial Flag.

• Congressional Concurrent Resolution
  
  
• Alameda County, "Children's Memorial Day" Resolution   (149KB)*
  
  
• History of the Children's Memorial Flag and Grove   (65KB)*
  
  
• Flag Protocol   (64KB)*