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Service members from the 13th Military Police Company

Service members from the 13th Military Police Company

Service members from the 13th Military Police Company at Fort Leonard Wood render a three-volley salute during the Wreaths Across America ceremony. (Army photo/Melissa Buckley)

Airmen assigned to the 4th Civil Engineer Squadron

Airmen assigned to the 4th Civil Engineer Squadron

Airmen assigned to the 4th Civil Engineer Squadron hold flags, Dec. 12, 2015, at the Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Princeton, N.C., during the annual Wreaths Across America event. Approximately 25 service memb... More

CWO 5 Vince Pope, Weapons Training Battalion, Marksmanship

CWO 5 Vince Pope, Weapons Training Battalion, Marksmanship

CWO 5 Vince Pope, Weapons Training Battalion, Marksmanship Program director, lays the Marine Corps holiday wreath during the annual Wreaths Across America Dec. 12 at Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Va. ... More

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Michael

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Michael

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Michael Mendoza, from Chula Vista, Calif., places a wreath on the grave of a service member during the 21st annual Wreaths Across America event held at Fort Rosec... More

A Soldier stands at attention during the Wreaths Across

A Soldier stands at attention during the Wreaths Across

A Soldier stands at attention during the Wreaths Across America (WAA) ceremony at the State Capitol Rotunda, Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 9, 2019. Wreaths Across America annually provides wreaths to honor and remember ... More

Senior Airman Mary Louise Van Diver, 4th Force Support

Senior Airman Mary Louise Van Diver, 4th Force Support

Senior Airman Mary Louise Van Diver, 4th Force Support Squadron food service specialist, walks to a gravesite at the Pikeville Cemetery in Pikeville, North Carolina, December 19, 2020. Members of the 4th Fighte... More

Far left: Christie Woodard, leader of local Brownie

Far left: Christie Woodard, leader of local Brownie

Far left: Christie Woodard, leader of local Brownie Troop 11, helps young ‘Brownies’ as they place wreaths on headstones at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Fort Bliss, Texas, Dec. 12, 2015. Troop 11 adorned n... More

Snow falls in Arlington National Cemetery, Jan. 7,

Snow falls in Arlington National Cemetery, Jan. 7,

Snow falls in Arlington National Cemetery, Jan. 7, 2017, in Arlington, Va. This was the first significant snowfall of the season. (U.S. Army photo by Rachel Larue/Arlington National Cemetery/released)

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island Color Guard

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island Color Guard

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island Color Guard attends the Wreaths Across America ceremony in Beaufort, S.C., Dec. 14, 2019. Wreaths Across America annually provides wreaths to honor and remember fallen s... More

Trace Adkins, country music star, performs “Arlington”

Trace Adkins, country music star, performs “Arlington”

Trace Adkins, country music star, performs “Arlington” at the opening ceremony for Wreaths Across America in Arlington National Cemetery, Dec. 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. WAA, a nonprofit organization, places a... More

191214-N-AD499-1050 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 14, 2019)

191214-N-AD499-1050 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 14, 2019)

191214-N-AD499-1050 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard representatives salute during Ivy Green Cemetery's 8th annual celebration of Wreaths Across America... More

Wreaths lay on headstones during Wreaths Across America

Wreaths lay on headstones during Wreaths Across America

Wreaths lay on headstones during Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Participants laid 4,000 wreaths for fallen service members. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd... More

Senior Airman Ethan Salgado, 4th Civil Engineer Squadron

Senior Airman Ethan Salgado, 4th Civil Engineer Squadron

Senior Airman Ethan Salgado, 4th Civil Engineer Squadron fire fighter, holds an American flag during a Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec. 17, 2016, at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Princeton, North Carolina... More

Over 350 people from Fort Knox and the surrounding

Over 350 people from Fort Knox and the surrounding

Over 350 people from Fort Knox and the surrounding communities placed wreaths at the gravestones of warriors in the post cemetery Dec. 19, 2020, as part of Wreaths Across America.

HAMPTON, Va. — Pfc. Christian Paris, a data systems

HAMPTON, Va. — Pfc. Christian Paris, a data systems

HAMPTON, Va. — Pfc. Christian Paris, a data systems administrator with Headquarters and Service Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command carries wreaths while volunteering in a wreath-laying ceremony for Wre... More

Richard Leonard, the ceremony guest speaker, participated

Richard Leonard, the ceremony guest speaker, participated

Richard Leonard, the ceremony guest speaker, participated in the annual Wreaths Across America Dec. 12 at Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Va. Leonard works with the Civil Air Patrol Squadron from North Stafford.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alyssa Kane, assigned

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alyssa Kane, assigned

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alyssa Kane, assigned to the 11th Medical Support Squadron, distribute thousands of wreaths to volunteers to lay on graves sites during National Wreaths Across America Day at Arling... More

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, highlights

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, highlights

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, highlights the importance of the Wreaths Across America mission to Honor, Remember and Teach in his remarks to more than 400 volunteers who participated in the ... More

Cmdr. Jeffrey Plummer, U.S. Navy Chaplain for Marine

Cmdr. Jeffrey Plummer, U.S. Navy Chaplain for Marine

Cmdr. Jeffrey Plummer, U.S. Navy Chaplain for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, gives the Invocation during the opening Wreath Laying ceremony in San Diego, Dec 14, 2019. The San Diego community gathered for th... More

Volunteers place wreaths on headstones in Arlington

Volunteers place wreaths on headstones in Arlington

Volunteers place wreaths on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery during the Wreath Across America event, Dec. 17, 2016, in Arlington, Va. This year marks the 25th year that wreaths have been placed at ANC.... More

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles around Los Gatos Memorial Park as they await their eventual placement upon the graves of fallen service members for the Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec.... More

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Army Sgt. Cristoval

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Army Sgt. Cristoval

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Army Sgt. Cristoval Lopez, from Parlier, California, assigned to the U.S. Army's 689th Rapid Port Opening Element in Fort Eustis, Virginia, honors a fallen hero during a Wreath... More

A member of the U.S. Army Honor Guard, 3rd U.S. Infantry

A member of the U.S. Army Honor Guard, 3rd U.S. Infantry

A member of the U.S. Army Honor Guard, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) paces in front of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 14, 2013. The soldiers assigned ... More

A volunteer prepares to lay a wreath for the Wreaths

A volunteer prepares to lay a wreath for the Wreaths

A volunteer prepares to lay a wreath for the Wreaths Across America Ceremony at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Ga., Dec. 13, 2014. Thousands showed up to GNC to honor America’s heroes. (U.S. Air Force pho... More

Wreaths placed along the bottom of niche walls in

Wreaths placed along the bottom of niche walls in

Wreaths placed along the bottom of niche walls in Columbarium Court 1 during the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 16, 2017. On this day, volunteers place wr... More

Wreaths rest on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery

Wreaths rest on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery

Wreaths rest on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery following the Wreath Across America event, Dec. 17, 2016, in Arlington, Va. This year marks the 25th year that wreaths have been placed at ANC. (U.S. Ar... More

Shannon Manion, wife of the 55th Wing Commander Col.

Shannon Manion, wife of the 55th Wing Commander Col.

Shannon Manion, wife of the 55th Wing Commander Col. Michael Manion and President of Offutt Officer Spouses’ Club speaks during the National Wreaths Across America ceremony Dec. 15, 2018, at the Offutt Air Forc... More

Scouts from the Fort Drum Cub Scout Pack 26 and Girl

Scouts from the Fort Drum Cub Scout Pack 26 and Girl

Scouts from the Fort Drum Cub Scout Pack 26 and Girl Scouts Service Unit 512 place wreaths at the Military Mountaineers Monument and the surrounding markers in Memorial Park on Dec. 19. On National Wreaths Acro... More

Members of the Patriot Guard Riders carry U.S. flags

Members of the Patriot Guard Riders carry U.S. flags

Members of the Patriot Guard Riders carry U.S. flags to honor America's fallen warriors as part of the Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Jackson National Cemetery here Dec. 11.The ceremony was held to rem... More

Governor of Maine Paul LaPage and first lady Ann LaPage

Governor of Maine Paul LaPage and first lady Ann LaPage

Governor of Maine Paul LaPage and first lady Ann LaPage lay wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier as part of Wreaths Across America Day, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014.

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 12, 2015) – Chief Religious Program

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 12, 2015) – Chief Religious Program

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 12, 2015) – Chief Religious Program Specialist Zachary Mcdonald, assigned to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) lays a wreath to pay respects during a Wreaths Across A... More

Volunteers walk to various gravesites to place wreaths

Volunteers walk to various gravesites to place wreaths

Volunteers walk to various gravesites to place wreaths during the Wreaths Across America Wreath Laying and Remembrance Ceremony at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Fla., Dec. 16, 2017. There were appr... More

151212-N-JY507-017 Bremerton, Wash. (Dec. 12, 2015)

151212-N-JY507-017 Bremerton, Wash. (Dec. 12, 2015)

151212-N-JY507-017 Bremerton, Wash. (Dec. 12, 2015) – Capt. Tom Zwolfer, commanding officer, Naval Base Kitsap, gives a speech during the Wreaths Across America wreath-laying ceremony at Ivy Green Cemetery in B... More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Derrick Stenstrom, 633rd

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Derrick Stenstrom, 633rd

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Derrick Stenstrom, 633rd Security Forces Squadron administration specialist, organizes wreaths for a National Wreaths Across America Remembrance ceremony at Hampton National Cemeter... More

Volunteers arrive on Memorial Avenue to participate

Volunteers arrive on Memorial Avenue to participate

Volunteers arrive on Memorial Avenue to participate in the Wreaths Across America’s clean-up day, commonly known as Wreaths Out, at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 19, 2019. This year, ov... More

A volunteer places a wreath on a grave at Arlington

A volunteer places a wreath on a grave at Arlington

A volunteer places a wreath on a grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 14, 2013. Thousands of people helped place more than 140,000 wreaths on the graves of fallen service members as a par... More

Sailors and civilians offload a wreath delivery from

Sailors and civilians offload a wreath delivery from

Sailors and civilians offload a wreath delivery from Wreaths Across America at Barrancas National Cemetery on Naval Air Station Pensacola Dec. 11, 2019. The wreaths were delivered in preparation of National Wre... More

A volunteer arranges a wreath on one of many headstones

A volunteer arranges a wreath on one of many headstones

A volunteer arranges a wreath on one of many headstones at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 14, 2013. Thousands of people helped place more than 140,000 wreaths on the graves of fallen service ... More

Former Army Staff Sgt. Lanice Wheeler lays a wreath

Former Army Staff Sgt. Lanice Wheeler lays a wreath

Former Army Staff Sgt. Lanice Wheeler lays a wreath on a headstone during Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Participants laid 4,000 wreaths for fallen service members. U.S. Navy p... More

Sixty-six trucks carrying 230,000 "Wreaths of Remembrance"

Sixty-six trucks carrying 230,000 "Wreaths of Remembrance"

Sixty-six trucks carrying 230,000 "Wreaths of Remembrance" arrived at Arlington National Cemetery for Wreaths Across America Day, Dec. 13, 2014. The 40,000 volunteers gathered to lay the wreaths at grave sites ... More

181215-N-DS741-1176 SAN DIEGO (Dec 15, 2018) Service

181215-N-DS741-1176 SAN DIEGO (Dec 15, 2018) Service

181215-N-DS741-1176 SAN DIEGO (Dec 15, 2018) Service members attend a ceremony in observance of National Wreaths Across America (WAA) Day at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Dec 15. WAA coordinates wreath­layi... More

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts a Wreaths Across

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts a Wreaths Across

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on JBER, Alaska, Dec. 18, 2020. Wreaths Across America’s wreath-laying ceremonies are held annually a... More

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Lee Tibbetts salutes

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Lee Tibbetts salutes

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Lee Tibbetts salutes a headstone following the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 16, 2017. Tibbetts drove one of the trucks... More

A volunteer lays a wreath on a gravestone for Wreaths

A volunteer lays a wreath on a gravestone for Wreaths

A volunteer lays a wreath on a gravestone for Wreaths Across America at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Ga., Dec. 13, 2014. Wreaths Across America occurs the second Saturday of December every year. (U.S. A... More

Volunteers walk among the grave sites after placing

Volunteers walk among the grave sites after placing

Volunteers walk among the grave sites after placing wreaths during a National Wreaths Across America Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 15, 2012. Volunteers placed more than 220,0... More

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Sean Mackenzie  salutes a wreath

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Sean Mackenzie salutes a wreath

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Sean Mackenzie salutes a wreath he placed with a Gold Star family member during the annual Wreaths Across America day at the Ft. Richardson National Cemetery, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richar... More

The Annual Wreaths Across America holiday wreath-laying

The Annual Wreaths Across America holiday wreath-laying

The Annual Wreaths Across America holiday wreath-laying ceremony at Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Va., is held in unity with national cemeteries nationwide Dec. 12 to honor the military and their fami... More

Wreaths placed at headstones in Section 66 during the

Wreaths placed at headstones in Section 66 during the

Wreaths placed at headstones in Section 66 during the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 16, 2017. On this day, volunteers place wreaths at every gravesite at... More

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson personnel and a Gold

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson personnel and a Gold

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson personnel and a Gold Star family member listen to opening remarks during a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson... More

Sgt. 1st. Class Jean Mott, a XVIII Airborne Corps Soldier,

Sgt. 1st. Class Jean Mott, a XVIII Airborne Corps Soldier,

Sgt. 1st. Class Jean Mott, a XVIII Airborne Corps Soldier, salutes a fallen Soldier’s grave during a Wreaths Across America event at the Sand Hills State Veteran’s Cemetery in Spring Lake, N.C. Dec. 17, 2016. ... More

Volunteers pick up wreaths to place on headstones in

Volunteers pick up wreaths to place on headstones in

Volunteers pick up wreaths to place on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery during the Wreaths Across America event, Dec. 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. WAA, a nonprofit organization, places a wreath on every... More

Sandra Bohling, a Gold Star family member, places a

Sandra Bohling, a Gold Star family member, places a

Sandra Bohling, a Gold Star family member, places a wreath during a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 18, 2020. Wreaths Across... More

Volunteers helped place 2,300 wreaths on the graves

Volunteers helped place 2,300 wreaths on the graves

Volunteers helped place 2,300 wreaths on the graves of fallen service members as a part of the Wreaths Across America event at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery at Black Mountain, N.C., Dec. 17, 2016... More

Soldiers with U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade

Soldiers with U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade

Soldiers with U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division post the colors as part of a joint color guard Dec. 16 at a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Richardso... More

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles around Los Gatos Memorial Park as they await their eventual placement upon the graves of fallen service members for the Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec.... More

The 230,000 remembrance wreaths were laid at headstones

The 230,000 remembrance wreaths were laid at headstones

The 230,000 remembrance wreaths were laid at headstones at Arlington National Cemetery on Wreath Across America Day. The 40,000 volunteers gathered to pay tribute to our nation's heroes.

Col. James Treece, Post Commander of Fort Chaffee JMTC

Col. James Treece, Post Commander of Fort Chaffee JMTC

Col. James Treece, Post Commander of Fort Chaffee JMTC , renders the hand salute with Ms. Anjanette Buffalo, Gold Star Mother of Cpl. Loren Buffalo, at the Oahu WWII memorial. Col. Treece's father was a POW dur... More

181215-N-PG550-0019 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 15, 2018) Interior

181215-N-PG550-0019 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 15, 2018) Interior

181215-N-PG550-0019 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 15, 2018) Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Alex Sherwood, from Las Vegas, passes boxes filled with wreaths down a line for Wreaths Across America at Hampton R... More

181215-N-MY642-0037 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (DEC. 15, 2018)

181215-N-MY642-0037 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (DEC. 15, 2018)

181215-N-MY642-0037 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (DEC. 15, 2018) Command Master Chief Rick Mengel, command master chief of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), salutes a headstone during a Wreath Across America eve... More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Janae Javis, left, Senior

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Janae Javis, left, Senior

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Janae Javis, left, Senior Airman Alyssa Kane, center, and Senior Airman Jasmine French with the 11th Medical Support Squadron, distribute thousands of wreaths to volunteers to lay o... More

Volunteers place wreaths at the Columbarium in Arlington

Volunteers place wreaths at the Columbarium in Arlington

Volunteers place wreaths at the Columbarium in Arlington National Cemetery for National Wreaths Across America Day, Dec. 17, 2016. Wreaths Across America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2007 to ... More

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, places

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, places

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, places wreaths on service member headstones, alongside more than 400 volunteers, at Toledo Memorial Park in Sylvania, Ohio, Dec. 14, 2019, following the officia... More

Wreaths placed at headstones in Section 65 during the

Wreaths placed at headstones in Section 65 during the

Wreaths placed at headstones in Section 65 during the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 16, 2017. On this day, volunteers place wreaths at every gravesite at... More

Wreaths Across America, Colorado Springs

Wreaths Across America, Colorado Springs

Airmen from across the U.S. Air Force Academy laid wreaths down at the Academy cemetery, Dec. 11, 2012, as part of the Wreaths Across America campaign. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Kristin Hatfield)

Family members and members of Disabled American Veterans

Family members and members of Disabled American Veterans

Family members and members of Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars District 15 listen to a speech given by Lt. Col. Steven F. Egan, the commander of Fort Devens in Mass., during a ceremony fo... More

Solemn Moment, US Navy Photogrpah

Solemn Moment, US Navy Photogrpah

Kathryn Sharp, of Palmer, Alaska, is overcome with emotion and supports herself with the gravestone of her Vietnam War veteran husband retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Creig Mitchel Sharp during the annual... More

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt.

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt.

HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 14, 2019) U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Biederman, left, from Longwood, Florida, and Tech. Sgt. Nicole Biederman, from West Chester, Pennsylvania, render a salute during a Wreaths Across A... More

191214-N-RF885-060 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Cadets

191214-N-RF885-060 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Cadets

191214-N-RF885-060 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Cadets and Midshipmen of the Army and Navy Academy’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps in Carlsbad, Calif. present memorial wreaths during a Wreaths Across America (W... More

Soldiers and Airmen of the New Jersey National Guard

Soldiers and Airmen of the New Jersey National Guard

Soldiers and Airmen of the New Jersey National Guard participate in a Wreaths Across America ceremony in the Registry Room, also called the Great Hall at Ellis Island, Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 10, 2014. Each yea... More

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Second Class

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Second Class

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Second Class Petty Officer Association (SCPOA) pose for a photo in front of Captain Ted Conaway Memorial Naval Cemetery on Dec. 23. The SCPOA hosted a volunteer event fo... More

Wreaths Across America was celebrated at the West Point

Wreaths Across America was celebrated at the West Point

Wreaths Across America was celebrated at the West Point Cemetery Saturday, Dec. 1 at noon. Hundreds gathered for the event emplacing one wreath on each grave in the cemetery. Dr. Todd Crowder, United States Mi... More

NOSC Columbia was honored to represent the Navy at

NOSC Columbia was honored to represent the Navy at

NOSC Columbia was honored to represent the Navy at this year’s wreath laying ceremony at the SC Statehouse December 9, 2019. AZC (AW) Dildy (a native of Aiken, SC) and CDR Christian Robertson from NOSC Columbia... More

191214-N-LC749-0041 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Sailors

191214-N-LC749-0041 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Sailors

191214-N-LC749-0041 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Sailors place a wreath on a headstone in honor of those missing in action and prisoners of war during the Wreaths Across America event at Fort Rosecrans National Ce... More

Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers (left), assistant public

Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers (left), assistant public

Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers (left), assistant public affairs officer for the Coast Guard 13th District, and Cadet Jacob Pimpiono (right), a member of the McChord Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, ... More

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts a Wreaths Across

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts a Wreaths Across

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on JBER, Alaska, Dec. 18, 2020. Wreaths Across America’s wreath-laying ceremonies are held annually a... More

FORT BENNING, Ga. (Dec. 15, 2018) – Fort Benning honored

FORT BENNING, Ga. (Dec. 15, 2018) – Fort Benning honored

FORT BENNING, Ga. (Dec. 15, 2018) – Fort Benning honored the memory of the nation’s military veterans Dec. 15 with a wreath-laying ceremony that marked the first time the post has taken part in National Wreaths... More

Participants sing and cheer during the Wreaths Across

Participants sing and cheer during the Wreaths Across

Participants sing and cheer during the Wreaths Across America Wreath Laying and Remembrance Ceremony at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Fla., Dec. 16, 2017. The purpose of the ceremony is to remember... More

Boy Scouts from Fort Knox Troop 155 lead the crowd

Boy Scouts from Fort Knox Troop 155 lead the crowd

Boy Scouts from Fort Knox Troop 155 lead the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance at the Wreaths Across America event at Fort Knox’s Main Post Cemetery Dec. 14, 2019.

U.S. Army Alaska and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

U.S. Army Alaska and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

U.S. Army Alaska and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson leaders, along with Gold Star families and community members, remember the fallen and honor military veterans as part of Wreaths Across America, Saturday, De... More

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Peter B. Andrysiak, U.S. Army Alaska

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Peter B. Andrysiak, U.S. Army Alaska

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Peter B. Andrysiak, U.S. Army Alaska commander, places a wreath during a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec.... More

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles around Los Gatos Memorial Park as they await their eventual placement upon the graves of fallen service members for the Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec.... More

Volunteers enter Arlington National Cemetery to participate

Volunteers enter Arlington National Cemetery to participate

Volunteers enter Arlington National Cemetery to participate in the Wreaths Across America’s clean-up day, commonly known as Wreaths Out, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 19, 2019. This yea... More

A volunteer places wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery

A volunteer places wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery

A volunteer places wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery during National Wreaths Across America Day, Dec. 17, 2016. Wreaths Across America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2007 to continue and e... More

A volunteer place wreaths at a headstone in Section

A volunteer place wreaths at a headstone in Section

A volunteer place wreaths at a headstone in Section 60 during the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 16, 2017. On this day, thousands of volunteers place wrea... More

Wreaths are laid across graves at Arlington National

Wreaths are laid across graves at Arlington National

Wreaths are laid across graves at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 14, 2013. Volunteers helped place more than 140,000 wreaths and decorations on the graves of fallen service members as a part ... More

On Dec. 11, 2010, military members, civilians and volunteers

On Dec. 11, 2010, military members, civilians and volunteers

On Dec. 11, 2010, military members, civilians and volunteers gathered for a solemn tribute to honor veterans in the annual Wreaths Across America ceremony held at the Massachusetts National Cemetery on Cape Cod... More

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles around Los Gatos Memorial Park as they await their eventual placement upon the graves of fallen service members for the Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec.... More

Airmen assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing Honor Guard

Airmen assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing Honor Guard

Airmen assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing Honor Guard present the colors during the National Anthem at the Pikeville Cemetery in Pikeville, North Carolina, December 19, 2020. The ceremony was part of Wreaths Acro... More

U.S. Air Force airmen lay wreaths on grave sites of

U.S. Air Force airmen lay wreaths on grave sites of

U.S. Air Force airmen lay wreaths on grave sites of veterans during the “Wreaths Across America” program at the Hampton National Veteran Cemetery in Hampton, Va., Dec. 14, 2013. “Wreaths Across America” is an a... More

Civil Air patrolmen render salutes to graves with recently

Civil Air patrolmen render salutes to graves with recently

Civil Air patrolmen render salutes to graves with recently placed wreaths during the Wreaths Across America ceremony at Mount Hope Cemetery, Lynn Haven, Fla., Dec. 12. This event was made possible by thousands ... More

191214-N-CC785-003 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (Dec. 14, 2019)

191214-N-CC785-003 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (Dec. 14, 2019)

191214-N-CC785-003 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (Dec. 14, 2019) - About a dozen Naval Station Great Lakes volunteers helped place wreaths at the Great Lakes Naval Cemetery on Dec. 14 as part of the national “Wreaths Acros... More

Personnel from the 242nd Combat Communications Squadron

Personnel from the 242nd Combat Communications Squadron

Personnel from the 242nd Combat Communications Squadron attended the Wreaths Across America Ceremony at the Eastern Washington Veterans Cemetery.

Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division

Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division

Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division participated in the Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Dec 16. During the ceremony, a representative from each branch of ... More

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, highlights

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, highlights

Col. Michael DiDio, 180th Fighter Wing Commander, highlights the importance of the Wreaths Across America mission to Honor, Remember and Teach in his remarks to more than 400 volunteers who participated in the ... More

A soldier with the 375th Combat Sustainment Support

A soldier with the 375th Combat Sustainment Support

A soldier with the 375th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, salutes during a memorial ceremony to honor five fallen soldiers at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Dec. 10. The 375th CSSB, a reserve army uni... More

Volunteers pass through Arlington National Cemetery,

Volunteers pass through Arlington National Cemetery,

Volunteers pass through Arlington National Cemetery, Va., to lay wreaths at the grave sites of fallen service members to honor their commitment and service to their country, Dec. 15, 2012. The wreaths were lai... More

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles

LOS GATOS, Calif. — Hundreds of wreaths lay in piles around Los Gatos Memorial Park as they await their eventual placement upon the graves of fallen service members for the Wreaths Across America ceremony, Dec.... More

A wreath leans on a headstone at Offutt Air Force Base,

A wreath leans on a headstone at Offutt Air Force Base,

A wreath leans on a headstone at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Dec. 14, 2019. Wreaths were placed on each headstone and eight ceremonial wreaths honored the four armed services, the Coast Guard, the Merchant Mar... More

Maj. Gen. John A. Toolan, the commanding of Regional

Maj. Gen. John A. Toolan, the commanding of Regional

Maj. Gen. John A. Toolan, the commanding of Regional Command Southwest, receives a wreath to honor service members who have died in Afghanistan as well as five fallen soldiers in the 375th Combat Sustainment Su... More

U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Lee carries wreaths and

U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Lee carries wreaths and

U.S. Air Force Capt. Peter Lee carries wreaths and his daughter, Reagan (8 months), during the Wreaths Across America’s clean-up day, commonly known as Wreaths Out at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Vir... More

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