Wreaths Across America, at Veterans cemeteries across the country, is set for Saturday December 15 this year. Please consider sponsoring a wreath(s) or volunteering your time at 10AM that day to lay the wreaths and say the veterans names. I am sure all have seen the beautiful and humble pictures with the wreathes laid against the headstones.










You can go to the website and search your area for the participating cemeteries and sponsor or volunteer. They teach a good message year round. One we want our children to hear.

https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/

Thanks,
12B2

I live in Cambridgeshire in Eastern England, where we have the largest American military cemetery in Europe that is outside France. Almost 4000 US Service personnel are buried there and another five thousand commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

For reasons I do not understand, this cemetery is not included in the list.

Two names are there that have special resonance for me - they are Cpl J D Foley Jnr, who has a grave, and 2nd Lt Thomas J Foley, who does not.

Still and all, I go there on July 4th most years, the same day that your nation was born, and the same day that our son died, and I remember us all together.

I will be at Toledo Memorial in OH Saturday putting wreaths on Vets graves as I have for the last three yrs. Tons of people in the community show up to help.

I’ll be at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Abilene to lay wreaths. This will be my first time participating.

I did this some years ago at Valley Forge, we placed 2,000 wreaths around the Washington Memorial Arch to remember the 2,000 Continental troops who died there of hunger, cold or disease during the winter of 1777-1778.

There are no graves there, so we just placed them around the arch in neat orderly rows like Soldiers lined up.

The Veteran’s Cemetery in Wyoming is up near Casper, but my wife and I have purchased wreaths for a couple years. My father-in-law (Korea) is buried along with my wife’s mother in the National Memorial Cemetery in Phoenix. In case some members do not know, you can purchase a wreath for a specific gravesite and ask for a wreath to be placed there; that’s a nice thing. My dad and uncles are all buried in Catholic cemeteries and coordination is a bit tougher with volunteers.