This is what I've been doing but cleaning it after I cut back the grass is just getting the dirt off it and then put some water on it and wipe it off with a small soft towel on the brass markers. I find the edge of the cement by putting my fingers under the dirt and then make a line with my garden trowel and then cut the grass back, that way I don't damage or scratch the marker. Cleaning Government-Furnished Headstones and Markers - National Cemetery Administration
Since the rain stopped, I went to the cemetery and took care of the flowers. After I was finished with the flowers, I cut back the grass that was growing over three more Bronze Veteran Markers. One was a Green Beret in Vietnam and two were in World War II. Hopefully my next time there, I can do 4 Veteran Markers instead of 3, that's a total of 7 so far this year. I never set a goal on how many that I would do but 20 sounds like a number I could get done. I did talk with the person who takes care of the cemetery just to make sure I was doing it how they would like it done, the way I was doing it was fine, they did tell me how they didn't want it done.
My plan was just to take care of the flowers at the cemetery and not do any Veteran Bronze Markers today but after taking a walk and seeing a bunch you couldn't read, I ended cutting the grass back on another five so they can be read.
