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Monday, December 19, 2016

Photos: 44,000 volunteers brave icy weather to lay wreaths for veterans

ARLINGTON, Va. — More than 44,000 volunteers turned out even in the icy, cold and rainy weather to carefully lay 245,000 remembrance wreaths at t Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, as part of “Wreaths Across America.”

It was the 25th year that wreaths have been placed at Arlington National Cemetery. The theme for this year’s event was #SayTheirNames.

The wreaths are placed at grave sites nationwide to honor and remember fallen veterans and their service. After placing a wreath, volunteers are encouraged to take time to read the headstone, to honor the memory of that fallen hero and to say the veteran’s name out loud.

For Julie Hunter from Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, this has become an annual pilgrimage. The experience, for her, is a somber one.

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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 19, 2016 at 10:32 AM

    Not one was a Democrat.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 19, 2016 at 10:41 AM

    Thank you. This means more to some of us than words can adequately express.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 19, 2016 at 11:23 AM

    10:32 I bet you're wrong.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 19, 2016 at 11:37 AM

    11:23 I bet you're wrong.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM

    Obama would have been there but had an 11.17 tee time

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  6. AnonymousDecember 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM

    Dave T: Three cheers for these patriots ! Thank you

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