Press Release: National Wreaths Across America Day ceremonies to be held at area cemeteries
Participants of the 2022 event. {Contributed Photo: Leonard’s Creek Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution}
WHAT: Leonard’s Creek Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), an official Wreaths Across America (WAA) sponsorship group, will host three wreath-laying ceremonies, joining 4,200 other locations honoring 2.9M deceased servicemembers across the country for National Wreaths Across America Day. Coordinated and led by the local DAR chapter, the sponsorship group has raised funds throughout the year to sponsor the placement of over 300 veterans’ wreaths at the headstones of servicemembers laid to rest. This annual event seeks to further the yearlong mission to Remember, Honor, Teach, ensuring that the memory of those who served our country endures.
Attending veterans will be given priority in placing wreaths.
WHEN: Saturday, December 16, 2023
WHERE: Pilgrim Reformed Church, 797 Pilgrim Church Road, Lexington, at noon with the North
Davidson High School ROTC presenting the colors and professional trumpeter James
Armstrong playing TAPS.
Mt. Tabor UCC, 1002 E Holly Grove Road, Lexington, at 3pm with US Army veteran and Army National Guard member Walter Blower playing TAPS on a WWII Navy bugle.
Center Church of Welcome, 186 Center Church Road, Lexington, at 3pm with the
American Heritage Girls placing flags. Judge Jimmy Myers and Judge April Wood will speak. Conor Noel will play TAPS.
WHO:
Veterans, active service members, families of veterans, volunteers, and the general public.
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About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) 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 yearlong mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at more than 4,000 veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and overseas.
About Leonard’s Creek Chapter, NSDAR
Organized in 2018, the Davidson County, NC chapter fulfills the mission of the Daughters of the American Revolution by honoring veterans, offering educational opportunities, and serving the community through its patriotic programs and service. DAR membership is open to women over 18 and requires documented lineage to those who won America’s freedom during the American Revolution. For more information visit Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LeonardsCreekChapterNSDAR
