This year’s National Wreaths Across America Day is December 17, 2022. The local Remembrance Ceremony will be held at 11 am, Greenhill cemetery, at the GAR monument. Following the ceremony, members of the Jacques Laramie Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and The Laramie Woman’s Club, along with volunteers from Laramie VFW Post 2221 and the local community will join together to place 700 wreaths on Veteran graves at the cemetery.

Wreaths Across America began in 1992, when Worcester Wreath was left with a surplus of wreaths at the end of the holiday season. Arrangements were made for the wreaths to be placed at Arlington National Cemetery. From this beginning, the project has grown and now more than 2 million wreaths are placed at thousands of locations here and across the world. The placement of wreaths on gravesites acknowledges the empty space at so many family tables representing a veteran who has been lost, and honors their service to this nation.

The DAR and Woman’s Club thanks the VFW, local businesses and countless individuals whose donations made the purchase of these wreaths possible. You can learn more about Wreaths Across America and their motto of Remember, Honor, Teach at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. To find out more about volunteering for wreath placement, email waa-dar@charter.net