LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The annual “Wreaths Across America” commemoration in honor of late veterans is set for this Saturday at cemeteries across Lake County.
Youth organizations and veteran organizations have volunteered to conduct the Wreaths Across America ceremonies this year beginning at 8:50 a.m. at the Hartley, Kelseyville, Upper Lake, Lower Lake and St. Mary’s cemeteries.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Lake County residents will once again gather to show veterans and their families that they will not be forgotten.
Youth organizations including Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, FFA, the Clear Lake High School Band, California Highway Patrol Explorers, Lake County Sheriff’s Explorers, St. Mary’s Confirmation Kids, Interact Students and members of Antoinette’s Musical Theater will be joined by the Lake County Military Funeral Honors Team, Patriot Guard Riders, Knights of Columbus and Honor Guard from the Travis Air Force Base in leading the ceremonies.
Seven ceremonial wreaths will be placed to remember all soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who served, honor their sacrifices and teach younger generations about the high cost of freedom.
The truck that has come across the country with the remembrance wreaths will arrive on Friday. Watch for the escort of the truck through Kelseyville around 11:45 a.m. and through Lakeport around 1:15 p.m. as it delivers more than 460 wreaths to Hartley Cemetery.
Each year veterans proudly volunteer to drive these beautiful semi trucks across country to remember and honor our veterans. The truck delivering these wreaths will feature the cemetery at Normandy in France.
Wreaths Across America pursues its mission with nationwide wreath-laying events at the holiday season, and year-round educational outreach inviting all Americans to appreciate our freedoms and the cost at which they are delivered.
Ceremonies will be coordinated simultaneously at more than 1,230 participating locations all across the country and overseas.
In 2016, Wreaths Across America and its national network of volunteers laid more than 1.2 million veteran remembrance wreaths with help from more than 1,500 fundraising groups in all 50 states, corporate contributions, business and personal sponsorships and thousands of helping hands.
More than 400 truckloads of wreaths were delivered across the country by hundreds of volunteer professional truck drivers.
Bundle up and show your support for what these veterans and their families have sacrificed and place a remembrance wreath. If you can’t make it don’t miss an opportunity to thank a veteran.
Organizers thank all of those individuals, businesses and groups that have so generously sponsored wreaths this year and in the past to assure veterans in Lake County are honored and remembered.
‘Wreaths Across America’ ceremonies to honor veterans to take place Dec. 16
- Lake County News reports
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