Thread: Wreaths Across America - Arlington National Cemetery - Laying Wreath to our Fallen

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Here's a memory from National Wreaths Across America Day 2011. Here is one of our younger volunteers helping to place wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery.

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A New York crowd waves flags and cheers for Marines as they marched in the annual Veterans Day parade in New York, Nov. 11, 2012. Since Nov. 11, 1919, the parade has provided an opportunity for Americans and international visitors in the nation's largest city to honor those who have served. The Marines are assigned to the 6th Communications Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Bryan Nygaard

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Here's another memory from National Wreaths Across America Day 2011. Here we see a group of volunteers, many in military uniform, carrying wreaths to place on the graves at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Here's a memory from National Wreaths Across America Day, 2011. Wreaths Across America Executive Director, Karen Worcester takes a moment to reflect after placing a wreath at the Vietnam Memorial Wall.

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Here is another memory from the Escort to Arlington for 2011. This sculpture at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial is literally larger than life and seemed to come to life in the rain. Jill Stephenson (left) and Candy Martin, both Gold Star Mothers, experienced this scene for the first time. WAA photo by Joseph Andrew Lee For more information on the Escort to Arlington for 2012, visit Escort to Arlington | Wreaths Across America

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Here’s another memory from the 2011 Wreaths Across America Escort to Arlington. Here, Grant M. Smith embraces a New Jersey Gold Star Mother as she boards the bus on a very rainy afternoon. WAA photo by Joseph Andrew Lee This years Escort to Arlington starts December 9, 2012 in Harrington Maine, and finishes on December 15, 2012 at Arlington National Cemetery.

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This is from National Wreaths Across America Day 2011. Here we see some of the many volunteers helping to place Remembrance Wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery. Will you be coming to Arlington this year? Or are you planning on attending a ceremony near where you live?

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Here's a memory from the Wreaths Across America Escort to Arlington for December 2011. At a stop at the Topsfield Fairgrounds in Massachusetts, even these two dogs were showing their support for our Veterans. You can read more about this year's Escort to Arlington Schedule, on our website, Escort to Arlington | Wreaths Across America

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Here's a memory from The Wreath Escort for 2011. Craig Wallace of the Emerald Pipers plays Amazing Grace as wreaths are placed by American Gold Star Mothers at Liberty State Park in New Jersey.

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Navy divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, stand with the American flag, and the POW/MIA flag on the wreckage of a B-17 bomber that was shot down and sank during World War II during a dive Oct. 19, 2012. The team is deployed alongside JPAC aboard the USNS Grapple as part of a 30-day underwater recovery mission for an unaccounted-for service member who went missing during the crash. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Martin Carey