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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 from the Wreaths Across America ceremony lay

Wreaths from the Wreaths Across America ceremony lay

Wreaths from the Wreaths Across America ceremony lay at the Belvedere Cemetery in San Angelo, Texas, Dec. 12, 2015. The ceremony was to honor and give thanks to all deceased veterans. (U.S. Air Force photo by A... 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.

Distinguished guests place wreaths on the grave site

Distinguished guests place wreaths on the grave site

Distinguished guests place wreaths on the grave site of the 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy during National Wreaths Across America Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Dec. 16, 2017. National Wreaths Ac... More

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

191214-N-AD499-1054 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 14, 2019)

191214-N-AD499-1054 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 14, 2019)

191214-N-AD499-1054 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 14, 2019) Sgt. Mark Smith, left, and Lt. Col. Vern Frykholm, 103-year-old WWII Army veteran, bow their heads during a minute of silence to remember the fallen, prisone... 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

Headstones throughout Arlington National Cemetery,

Headstones throughout Arlington National Cemetery,

Headstones throughout Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., were adorned with wreaths during Wreaths Across America Day, Dec. 14. Fifty Marines and sailors from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune traveled... More

Wreaths placed on graves of veterans.

Wreaths placed on graves of veterans.

Wreaths placed on graves of veterans. Public domain photograph - grave, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assistant Chief Anthony Hopper, Arlington National Cemetery
Attendees wait next to and on top of the Women in Military

Attendees wait next to and on top of the Women in Military

Attendees wait next to and on top of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, just outside of Arlington National Cemetery, for the procession of trucks from Wreaths Across America to enter the cemete... More

Honoring past Veterans, the Fort Hunter Liggett Garrison

Honoring past Veterans, the Fort Hunter Liggett Garrison

Honoring past Veterans, the Fort Hunter Liggett Garrison Commander, Col. Jan C. Norris and Chaplain, Maj. Vaughn Benner, assist Boy Scouts, Dylan Wheeler and Austin Short from Troop 101, from King City, Calif.,... More

AJ Budenz, Gold Star family member, stands by his mother's

AJ Budenz, Gold Star family member, stands by his mother's

AJ Budenz, Gold Star family member, stands by his mother's side after laying a wreath on behalf of all the Gold Star Families who lost their loved ones in San Diego, Dec. 14, 2019. The surrounding San Diego co... More

Navy personnel from the Navy International Programs

Navy personnel from the Navy International Programs

Navy personnel from the Navy International Programs Office, Washington, distribute wreaths to volunteers during the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. Dec. 15, 2012. Wreaths Acros... More

Members of the community attend the Wayne County Wreaths

Members of the community attend the Wayne County Wreaths

Members of the community attend the Wayne County Wreaths Across America ceremony honor fallen service members Dec. 16, 2017, at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Princeton, North Carolina. More than 800 wreaths we... More

Merchant Mariners tip their hats after placing a wreath

Merchant Mariners tip their hats after placing a wreath

Merchant Mariners tip their hats after placing a wreath during the Wreaths Across America event Dec. 14, 2019, in Goldsboro, N.C. Dating back to the Revolutionary War, the Merchant Marines are a fleet of ships ... More

A veteran plays the National Anthem on bagpipes during

A veteran plays the National Anthem on bagpipes during

A veteran plays the National Anthem on bagpipes during a wreath laying ceremony at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Millsboro, Delaware, Dec. 19, 2020. Each December on National Wreaths Across America... More

Wreaths lie on the ground waiting to be placed on stands

Wreaths lie on the ground waiting to be placed on stands

Wreaths lie on the ground waiting to be placed on stands at Sumter Cemetery in Sumter, S.C., Dec. 17, 2016. Wreaths Across America promotes laying wreaths on veterans’ graves to remember and honor them. (U.S. A... More

A volunteer from Girl Scout's Troop 283 places a wreath

A volunteer from Girl Scout's Troop 283 places a wreath

A volunteer from Girl Scout's Troop 283 places a wreath during a Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Altus Cemetery, Okla., Dec. 16, 2017. On National Wreaths Across America Day each December, volunteers pla... More

Members of American Legion Post 133 present a wreath

Members of American Legion Post 133 present a wreath

Members of American Legion Post 133 present a wreath decorated with the flags of the various branches of the United States military, including the Coast Guard and Merchant Marines, during a wreath laying ceremo... More

Maj. Gen. John Evans Jr., commanding general of U.S.

Maj. Gen. John Evans Jr., commanding general of U.S.

Maj. Gen. John Evans Jr., commanding general of U.S. Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox, encourages the crowd gathered to participate in laying wreaths at each of the graves in the post cemetery Dec. 19, 2020.

Susan Zerbe prepares to place a wreath on the headstone

Susan Zerbe prepares to place a wreath on the headstone

Susan Zerbe prepares to place a wreath on the headstone for her son, Tech. Sgt. Daniel Lee Zerbe, who was one of 30 U.S. troops killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan in 2011. Susan... More

171216-N-RT036-081 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 16, 2017) Holiday

171216-N-RT036-081 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 16, 2017) Holiday

171216-N-RT036-081 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 16, 2017) Holiday wreaths lay on headstones at Hampton National Cemetery. Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), veterans, and civ... More

Staff Sgt. Cody Riffle and Staff Sgt. Kayla Hoffmaster,

Staff Sgt. Cody Riffle and Staff Sgt. Kayla Hoffmaster,

Staff Sgt. Cody Riffle and Staff Sgt. Kayla Hoffmaster, 167th Airlift Wing Base Honor Guard members, perform a flag folding ceremony at the Wreaths Across America event at Rosedale Cemetary in Martinsburg, W.V... More

161217-N-EC099-156 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 17, 2016)

161217-N-EC099-156 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 17, 2016)

161217-N-EC099-156 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 17, 2016) Representatives of each branch of military service salute behind wreaths in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Ivy Green Cemetery in Bremerton during... More

A wreath was laid upon Chief Warrant Officer 4 Lonnie

A wreath was laid upon Chief Warrant Officer 4 Lonnie

A wreath was laid upon Chief Warrant Officer 4 Lonnie Wyatt Jr.’s grave at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery in Black Mountain, N.C. Dec. 17, 2016. Volunteers lay wreaths on service member’s graves a... More

171216-N-RT036-097 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 16, 2017) Holiday

171216-N-RT036-097 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 16, 2017) Holiday

171216-N-RT036-097 HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 16, 2017) Holiday wreaths lay on headstones at Hampton National Cemetery. Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), veterans, and civ... More

Edith Nowels gives remarks during the Wreaths Across

Edith Nowels gives remarks during the Wreaths Across

Edith Nowels gives remarks during the Wreaths Across America opening ceremony with a cut-out of her brother, Medal of Honor recipient Horace M. Thorne, who was killed during World War II, near McClellan Gate in... More

Members of the Maine Sheriffs Association and Bangor

Members of the Maine Sheriffs Association and Bangor

Members of the Maine Sheriffs Association and Bangor Maine Police Department lay wreaths in Section 66 during the Wreath Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 16, 2017. ... More

Wreaths lay on headstones after being placed by volunteers

Wreaths lay on headstones after being placed by volunteers

Wreaths lay on headstones after being placed by volunteers during the Wreaths Across America event in Arlington National Cemetery, Dec. 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. WAA, a nonprofit organization, places a wreath... More

Service members from South Carolina National Guard

Service members from South Carolina National Guard

Service members from South Carolina National Guard particpate in a wreath laying ceremony at the State House, Dec. 5, 2011 as part of the Wreaths Across American campaign.

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

Fort Bliss National Cemetery celebrated those who gave

Fort Bliss National Cemetery celebrated those who gave

Fort Bliss National Cemetery celebrated those who gave their life to answer the nations call. Men and women of all ages came out to support past Soldiers and their Families commitment to serve. (U.S. Army photo... More

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. 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

A volunteer places wreaths at the Columbarium in Arlington

A volunteer places wreaths at the Columbarium in Arlington

A volunteer places 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 t... 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

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

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

Loved ones prepare to lay wreaths on graves at a Wreaths

Loved ones prepare to lay wreaths on graves at a Wreaths

Loved ones prepare to lay wreaths on graves at a Wreaths Across America event at the Fort Jackson National Cemetery, Columbia, S.C., Dec. 13, 2014. Loved ones who wished to honor the grave of a family member or... More

191214-N-LC749-0013 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) The Marine

191214-N-LC749-0013 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) The Marine

191214-N-LC749-0013 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) The Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Color Guard parades the colors before the playing of the national anthem while attending a Wreaths Across America event at ... More

Sgt. 1st Class Billy Thornton, III, an Electronic Warfare

Sgt. 1st Class Billy Thornton, III, an Electronic Warfare

Sgt. 1st Class Billy Thornton, III, an Electronic Warfare Specialist assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, salutes a veteran's headstone afte... More

Col. Jason Woodworth , commanding officer of Marine

Col. Jason Woodworth , commanding officer of Marine

Col. Jason Woodworth , commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, reads a Medal of Honor recipient’s citation during a Wreaths Across America ceremony at Miramar National Cemetery, San Diego, Calif... More

Navy Petty Officer Third Class Shardell Thomas carries

Navy Petty Officer Third Class Shardell Thomas carries

Navy Petty Officer Third Class Shardell Thomas carries wreaths to be placed at Arlington National Cemetery during the annual Wreaths Across America event Dec. 17, 2016.

Participants lay wreaths on headstones during Wreaths

Participants lay wreaths on headstones during Wreaths

Participants lay wreaths 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 MC2 (SW) Scott Micha... More

Former Marine Corps corporal and retired Air Force

Former Marine Corps corporal and retired Air Force

Former Marine Corps corporal and retired Air Force Tech. Sgt. Lawrence Gibson salutes during the playing of Taps, Dec. 14, 2019, in Goldsboro, N.C. Gibson served four years in the Marines before leaving the mil... More

181215-N-DS741-1403 SAN DIEGO (Dec 15, 2018) Hospital

181215-N-DS741-1403 SAN DIEGO (Dec 15, 2018) Hospital

181215-N-DS741-1403 SAN DIEGO (Dec 15, 2018) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Eliser Apostol, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, places a wreath on a veteran’s grave in observance of National Wreaths Across... More

Those who had family members buried at the cemetery

Those who had family members buried at the cemetery

Those who had family members buried at the cemetery were then allowed to honor their loved ones first before the rest of the wreaths were placed. Everybody else fanned out across the cemetery.

Teri Reece, Blue Star Mothers president, Rhonda Kuebler,

Teri Reece, Blue Star Mothers president, Rhonda Kuebler,

Teri Reece, Blue Star Mothers president, Rhonda Kuebler, Blue Star Mother member, and Sharon Kendall, Blue Star Mother member, participated in the annual Wreaths Across America Dec. 12 at Quantico National Ceme... More

Survivors and friends of fallen military members begin

Survivors and friends of fallen military members begin

Survivors and friends of fallen military members begin a line of volunteers ready to place wreaths at the headstones of Arlington National Cemetery during the annual Wreaths Across America event Dec. 17, 2016. ... More

Volunteers from throughout the Anchorage area placed

Volunteers from throughout the Anchorage area placed

Volunteers from throughout the Anchorage area placed hundreds of wreaths on headstones at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 16 in support of National Wreaths Acr... More

HONOLULU - Sgt. 1st Class Dadmarie Alvarado, a licensed

HONOLULU - Sgt. 1st Class Dadmarie Alvarado, a licensed

HONOLULU - Sgt. 1st Class Dadmarie Alvarado, a licensed practical nurse assigned to Tripler Army Medical Center, renders a salute to honor the fallen during the Wreaths Across America event at the National Memo... More

Fort Bliss National Cemetery celebrated those who gave

Fort Bliss National Cemetery celebrated those who gave

Fort Bliss National Cemetery celebrated those who gave their life to answer the nations call. Men and women of all ages came out to support past Soldiers and their Families commitment to serve. (U.S. Army photo... 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

Holiday wreaths were laid on 132 gravesites at the

Holiday wreaths were laid on 132 gravesites at the

Holiday wreaths were laid on 132 gravesites at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Leonard Wood following the 2011 Wreaths Across America ceremony. (U.S. Army photo by Melissa Buckley)

Bruce Price lays a wreath during Wreaths Across America

Bruce Price lays a wreath during Wreaths Across America

Bruce Price lays a wreath during Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Participants laid 4,000 wreaths for fallen service members. U.S. Navy photo by MC2 (SW) Scott Michael Barnes (Re... More

Retired Army Sgt. Roderick Harris of Rockville, Md.

Retired Army Sgt. Roderick Harris of Rockville, Md.

Retired Army Sgt. Roderick Harris of Rockville, Md. Carries wreaths to place upon a headstones during the annual Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Dec. 17, 2016. DoD ... More

Volunteers carry wreaths through a section of headstones

Volunteers carry wreaths through a section of headstones

Volunteers carry wreaths through a section of 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

U.S. Army Sgt. Natasha Orslene with the Military District

U.S. Army Sgt. Natasha Orslene with the Military District

U.S. Army Sgt. Natasha Orslene with the Military District of Washington Sergeant Audie Murphy Club moves boxes of wreaths for the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec... More

A U.S. Army veteran places a wreath on a headstone

A U.S. Army veteran places a wreath on a headstone

A U.S. Army veteran places a wreath on a headstone 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 membe... More

Naval Recruiting District Support Person of the Year

Naval Recruiting District Support Person of the Year

Yeoman 1st Class Jesus Almaguer, Naval Recruiting District Support Person of the Year, participates in a wreath laying ceremony sponsored by the Houston Civil Air Patrol in conjunction with Wreaths Across Ameri... More

Pictured here, a new temporary fire station was constructed

Pictured here, a new temporary fire station was constructed

Pictured here, a new temporary fire station was constructed at the Fort McNair portion of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in September 2015, adding new fire response capabilities to that portion of the joint bas... More

Hundreds of volunteers spent their Saturday morning

Hundreds of volunteers spent their Saturday morning

Hundreds of volunteers spent their Saturday morning at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery laying wreaths at various headstones throughout the grounds. They participated in a national event known as Wreaths Across... More

Paul and Stephanie Mamo lay wreaths during Wreaths

Paul and Stephanie Mamo lay wreaths during Wreaths

Paul and Stephanie Mamo lay wreaths during Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Participants laid 4,000 wreaths for fallen service members. U.S. Navy photo by MC2 (SW) Scott Michael ... More

181215-N-VH385-0028
BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 15, 2018)

181215-N-VH385-0028 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 15, 2018)

181215-N-VH385-0028 BREMERTON, Wash. (Dec. 15, 2018) Retired Navy Capt. Conrad Plyler, left, a Vietnam War veteran, and Command Master Chief James Willis, command master chief, Naval Base Kitsap (NBK), place an... More

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

Sgt. Antwain Burns stands holding a wreath before placing

Sgt. Antwain Burns stands holding a wreath before placing

Sgt. Antwain Burns stands holding a wreath before placing it on the headstone of a Marine veteran during the Wreaths Across America ceremony at the New Bern National Cemetery in New Bern, N.C., Dec. 12, 2015. B... More

151212-N-JY507-021 Bremerton, Wash. (Dec. 12, 2015)

151212-N-JY507-021 Bremerton, Wash. (Dec. 12, 2015)

151212-N-JY507-021 Bremerton, Wash. (Dec. 12, 2015) – Military members from all branches stand at parade rest during the Wreaths Across America wreath-laying ceremony at Ivy Green Cemetery in Bremerton, Wash. T... More

181215-N-MY642-0031 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (DEC. 15, 2018)

181215-N-MY642-0031 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (DEC. 15, 2018)

181215-N-MY642-0031 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (DEC. 15, 2018) Command Master Chief Rick Mengel, command master chief of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), carries a wreath to a headstone during a Wreath Across... More

A Soldier with 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment,

A Soldier with 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment,

A Soldier with 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, places a wreath next to a marker at the Fort Jackson National Cemetery Dec. 14, during the Wreaths Across America event. (Photo by Ms. Saskia Gabriel, Fort Jackson)

Capt. Kyle Gerber, an Armor officer assigned to Headquarters

Capt. Kyle Gerber, an Armor officer assigned to Headquarters

Capt. Kyle Gerber, an Armor officer assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, salutes a veteran's headstone after laying a wreath in front of it ... More

HONOLULU - Sgt. 1st Class Estevan Azocar (left),

HONOLULU - Sgt. 1st Class Estevan Azocar (left),

HONOLULU - Sgt. 1st Class Estevan Azocar (left), non-commissioned officer in charge of transfusion services at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) and president of the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club-Alaka'i Chapter,... More

Col. Charles B. Dockery, Commanding Officer of Marine

Col. Charles B. Dockery, Commanding Officer of Marine

Col. Charles B. Dockery, Commanding Officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and Jennifer and AJ Budenz, Gold Star family members, take part in laying a wreath on behalf of all the Gold Star Families who lo... More

191214-N-RF885-238 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Cryptologic

191214-N-RF885-238 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Cryptologic

191214-N-RF885-238 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 14, 2019) Cryptologic Technicians (Collection) 2nd Class Richard T. Baray, attached to Information Warfare Training Command, San Diego, places a wreath on a headstone during a... More

Wreaths are placed on headstones of service members

Wreaths are placed on headstones of service members

Wreaths are placed on headstones of service members during the Wreaths Across America event, at Little Rock National Cemetery, Arkansas, Dec. 15, 2018. The event was open to veterans, community members and anyo... More

Brig. Gen. Mark Yenter was the guest speaker during

Brig. Gen. Mark Yenter was the guest speaker during

Brig. Gen. Mark Yenter was the guest speaker during the Wreaths Across America ceremony held Dec. 10, at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Leonard Wood. Seated: Lisa Yenter, 1st Sgt. (Ret.) Walter Di... More

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. The ceremony is a part of a national effort at Arlington ... 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

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