Arlington Wreath Project

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Arlington Cemetery National Wreath Project - Wreaths Across America


Each year Worcester Wreath Company (the wreath company that provides holiday greenery for L.L. Bean) makes and decorates holiday wreaths and places them on over 5,000 headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. Morrill Worcester - President of Worcester Wreath Company, based in Harrington, Maine, started this annual event in 1992 to honor our nation’s fallen heroes. The Arlington Wreath project, coordinated with the Cemetery Administration and the Maine State Society, adorns the white tombstones with evergreen wreaths and red bows to recognize sacrifices our Veterans and their families have made for our country.

 

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[Truthmatters]

how beautiful

 

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[old navy]

Beautiful wreaths for our nation's most hallowed ground.

 

[Mr. H.]

Awesome.

 

[Navy1960]

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,--

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

A. Lincoln


Merry Christmas to all who have served and continue to serve and may you come home quickly and safely to the arms of your loved one's as fast as the winds will carry you.

 

[whitehall]

Yeah but there are 300,000 headstones in Arlington.

 

[rightwinger]

Yeah but there are 300,000 headstones in Arlington.

They rotate them every year