Wreaths Across America needs our help

I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve all heard about Wreaths Across America.

Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization which began 30 years ago, its mission to place a wreath on the grave of every veteran in the country. Last December, more than two million volunteers placed over 2.7 million wreaths at 3700 cemeteries across the U.S. and abroad.

Webster joined the effort for the first time back in 2022, when more than 300 community members gathered at Webster Union Cemetery on Saturday Dec. 17 to place 650 wreaths. Last year, Webster’s Wreaths Across America participation grew to three cemeteries — Webster Union, Union Hill and Webster Rural — and more than 1,300 wreaths, placing our little town in the top 4% in the country for the number of veterans honored.

But this year it’s going to be even bigger. Holy Trinity Church would like to join the effort. More than 300 veterans are buried there, many of them dating from the Civil War and before.

But Holy Trinity is struggling to get sponsorships for the wreaths they need, and we’re closing in on the deadline to order them. There are so many veterans there who no longer have family members to honor and remember them, and it would be great if our community could come together to help do so.

Or perhaps one of your family members was a veteran and is buried there. You can personally a sponsor a wreath for him or her and place it on the grave yourself. If you’d like to do that, email WebsterWreaths@icloud.com with the name of your loved one and your sponsored wreaths will be set aside for you.

If you can help out, click the link below to sponsor a wreath. The deadline is November 1, so Wreaths Across America has time to make them all. Individual wreath sponsorships are just $17, and $5 from each will go directly to Warm Coats for Kids, through the Knight of Columbus, to provide warm coats for Webster area kids in need.

https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/180352/Overview/?relatedId=180153

Then mark your calendar for Wreath Day, Saturday Dec. 14, and bring your whole family out to help honor our veterans. More details to come.

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(posted 10/20/2024)

Tags: Missy Rosenberry, Webster NY, Wreaths Across America