Wreaths Across America
Date(s)
- December 16, 2017 | 12:00 pm
Each December, on National Wreaths Across America Day, the mission – to Remember, Honor and Teach – is carried out by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as over 1,200 additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea, and abroad.
We encourage every volunteer who places a wreath on a veteran’s grave to say that veteran’s name aloud and take a moment to thank them for their service to our country. It’s a small act that goes a long way toward keeping the memory of our veterans alive.
We are not here to “decorate graves.” We’re here to remember not their deaths, but their lives.
—Karen Worcester, Executive Director of Wreaths Across America
We can’t do it without you. Whether you are a single individual, a corporation, a volunteer group, a trucker or a trucking company, there are plenty of ways you can get involved in helping us honor and remember our nation’s fallen servicemen and women.
To donate to the Richmond National Cemetery’s wreath laying ceremony and to sponsor a wreath:
https://wreaths.fastport.com/