A fallen Schuylkill County soldier will be honored Tuesday.

The Historic Prospect Hill Cemetery Heritage Foundation will conduct a flag updating ceremony at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Veterans Day, at 700 N. George St. in York.A new Pennsylvania flag to be added to the site will honor Capt. Jason B. Jones of Orwigsburg, killed in battle on June 2.Jones was a victim of small-arms wounds suffered in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.Jones had been assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.His deployment was part of Operation Enduring Freedom and he served as commander of the 12-man Special Forces A-Team, known as Operational Detachment-Alpha.Jones graduated with honors from Blue Mountain High School in 2003 where he was a scholar-athlete. He also graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.He was awarded a Bronze Star for his performance during deployment to Iraq in 2008-2009.As a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, Jones earned the Iron Panther Award. He graduated U.S. Army Jumpmaster School in 2010 and had completed the Special Forces Qualification Course in May 2013 to join the ranks of the U.S. Army Special Forces known as the Green Berets.On June 13, 2013, he married Dr. Amy Weniger, and the couple lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with their rescue dog, Molly.Jones' family includes his father, attorney Jay Jones of Pottsville, and mother, Suzy Jones of Orwigsburg, sister Dr. Lizzy Jones, grandparents Joseph and Grace Jones, and grandmother Carol Kaberle.The Times News reached out to the Jones family at their Pottsville-based law firm but was unable to determine if family members will attend the ceremony.The event will include Gold Star family members who have lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.Thirty-five new flags will be added to the 2,315 already on display.The Prospect Hill Cemetery display dates back to August 2005, when a solemn flag memorial was begun to honor U.S. soldiers lost in Iraq, according to its website.Except for winter months, this memorial has been on display continuously and has grown and expanded many times.In 2010, the memorial was at its largest size with three areas of flags: over 4,000 U.S. flags to mark losses in Iraq, over a thousand U.S. flags in another display to honor losses in Afghanistan, and finally hundreds of Pennsylvania flags to note the losses suffered in both theaters of war.In addition, 20 large banners bordered the display, showing the pictures of local fallen heroes who had been lost in the global war on terror.Since its inception, the flag memorial has been updated more than 25 times. At each updating ceremony, the names of the newly fallen are read while a soldier places a new flag in the display, steps back and solemnly salutes while a bell is tolled.