The public is invited to join in National Wreaths Across America Day, December 16, to help place wreaths on Veteran graves at Laramie’s Greenhill Cemetery. This year, the Jacques Laramie Chapter Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) joined with VFW Post 2221, WyoTech, other Laramie Businesses and organizations and countless individual donors to raise funds to purchase 1,000 wreaths to place on graves. Opening ceremonies begin at 11 am at the GAR monument followed by laying of the wreaths. For more information visit the Jacques Laramie DAR Facebook page or email waa-greenhill@charter.net.

Wreaths Across America began in 1992, when Worcester Wreath was left with a surplus of wreaths at the end of the holiday season. Arrangements were made for the wreaths to be placed at Arlington National Cemetery. From this beginning, the project has grown and now more than 2 million wreaths are placed at thousands of locations here and across the world. The placement of wreaths on gravesites acknowledges the empty space at so many family tables representing a veteran who has been lost, and honors their service to this nation. You can learn more about Wreaths Across America and their motto of Remember, Honor, Teach at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. To find out more about volunteering for wreath placement, email waa-dar@charter.net.