The cemeteries will join the more than 4,225 participating locations across the country to Remember, Honor and Teach. There are approximately 65 planned events across Alabama.
Millbrook, AL — National nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA) announced today that American Heritage Girls Troop AL0125 and Brookside Memorial Gardens in Millbrook, AL has once again joined in the mission to Remember, Honor, Teach, as an official location for 2023. This is the sixth year that the cemetery will participate in this national program.
In a similar event The Wetumpka City Cemetery is also participating in Wreaths Across America, also on Saturday at 10 a.m. For more information, visit https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/171320/Overview/?relatedId=0
American Heritage Girls Troop AL0125 and local Wreaths Across America volunteers are working hard to ensure that all veterans laid to rest Brookside Memorial Gardens are honored this December as part of National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 10 a.m.
Wreaths Across America started as a simple gesture of thanks that has grown into a national movement of dedicated volunteers and communities coming together to not only remember the nation’s fallen and honor their service, but to teach the next generation about the sacrifices made for us to live freely. This year, there will be more than 4,225 participating locations placing veterans’ wreaths on National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023 – with more than two million volunteers coming together.
The goal for American Heritage Girls Troop AL0125 is to raise enough funds to place nearly 500 sponsored veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of all the local heroes laid to rest at Brookside Memorial Gardens, to ensure that the individuals who served to protect the freedoms of our country never be forgotten and to bring the community together in patriotic commemoration.
“We are forever grateful for the thousands of supporters who dedicate their time and effort to fulfilling our mission all year long,” said Karen Worcester, executive director, Wreaths Across America. “These individuals and their communities know the value of remembering the fallen, honoring those who currently serve and teaching the next generation about the sacrifices made for our freedom every day, and without their continued support, Wreaths Across America would not exist. Every $17 live, balsam fir wreath sponsorship made is a meaningful gift from a grateful American who knows what it means to serve and sacrifice for the freedoms we all enjoy,” said Worcester “We are so grateful to the good people of this wonderful community for participating in our mission to Remember, Honor and Teach.”
Last year, ceremonies were held across the country at more than 3,100 participating locations, placing 2.4 million wreaths for interred veterans. This year Wreaths Across America Day will be held on December 16, 2023.
Those interested in volunteering for Wreaths Across America or sponsoring a wreath for Brookside Memorial Gardens are invited to visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org/AL0045p to learn more. National Wreaths Across America Day is a free community event open to all people.
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 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.
All Wreaths Across America Day events are, non-political/religious events, open to all people. For more information, to donate or to sign up to volunteer, please visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org/AL0045p
