Normally on Veterans Day, volunteers gather at the Riverside National Cemetery in California to place flags alongside more than 300,000 gravesites. But not this year.

The longest federal government shutdown on record is curtailing and outright canceling parades, ceremonies and other events across the U.S. that are normally held to mark Veterans Day. It's another fallout of the shutdown that has disrupted flights and food assistance , and was already being squarely felt by military families who are worried about their paychecks.

In California, organizers of “A Flag for Every Hero” said they couldn't move forward with the event on Tuesday without access to restrooms, traffic control and other needs for the thousands of participants. Elsewhere, a lack of federal employees and access

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