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Wreaths Across America is a national effort that grew thanks to a simple picture of wreaths laid at soldiers’ graves covered with snow at Arlington National Cemetery.
Today, wreaths are laid at 2,557 participating locations across the United States, most notably, at Arlington National Cemetery, each December.
On National Wreaths Across America Day, Saturday, a ceremony was held at East Oak Grove Cemetery on Dorsey Avenue in Morgantown.
Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission — Remember, Honor, Teach — is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
Info: wreathsacrossamerica.org.
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