Everyone is invited to attend Saturday Dec. 12 as Lake County gathers together to honor veterans during the holiday season as part of the annual Wreaths Across America Day. The event helps to show the veterans and families of veterans that attend that they will not be forgotten.
Youth Organizations and Veteran Organizations have volunteered to conduct the Wreaths Across America Ceremony this year at Hartley Cemetery, Kelseyville, Lower Lake, Upper Lake and St. Mary’s Cemeteries on Saturday starting promptly at 9 a.m. Seven ceremonial wreaths will be placed to remember all soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who served, honor their sacrifices and teach our younger generations about the high cost of our freedoms.
This year Wreaths Across America (WAA) announced to each cemetery coordinator in Lake County that they are sending additional wreaths so that every veteran at those cemeteries will be honored with a holiday wreath. Over 2,100 wreaths will be placed to remember and honor the Veterans buried in Lake County:
Hartley Cemetery-711 wreaths
Kelseyville Cemetery-486 wreaths
Lower Lake Cemetery-513 wreaths
Upper Lake Cemetery-414 wreaths
St. Mary’s Cemetery-43 wreaths.
WAA pursues its mission with nationwide wreath-laying events amid the holiday season, and year-round educational outreach inviting all Americans to appreciate our freedoms and the cost at which they are delivered. Specially designated wreaths for the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, and POW/MIA will be placed on memorials during a ceremony that will be coordinated simultaneously at over 1,000 participating locations all across the Country and overseas. In 2014, Wreaths Across America and their national network of volunteers laid over 700,000 memorial wreaths in the United States and beyond with help from 2,048 fundraising groups, corporate contributions, and donations of trucking, shipping, and thousands of helping hands.
Take an hour and bring your families to attend one of these heartfelt ceremonies that will be performed by youth organizations including Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, CLHS Cheerleaders, 4-H, FFA, CLHS Band, Sheriff Explorers, St. Mary’s Confirmation Kids, and K-Corps. In addition, the Lake County Funeral Honors Team, Patriotic Guard Riders and Honor Guard from the Travis Air Force Base will be attending at one of the locations.
