Progressive Grower to provide wreaths for veterans' graves
As part of National Wreaths Across America Day, Progressive Grower of Wareham will provide and lay wreaths on the graves of veterans at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne on Dec. 13.
Progressive Grower hopes to play a small part in addressing the massive deficit in donations for wreaths from previous years.
Coordinated by non-profit Wreaths Across America, the event will feature speeches by Gold Star parents and end with hundreds of volunteers adorning graves in veterans' cemeteries across the country and in Arlington, VA.
With more than 58,000 grave sites at the Bourne cemetery, there are never enough wreaths to cover all of the graves. Every year, different sections of the cemetery are chosen for wreath placement so that eventually every veteran’s grave is adorned.
Wreaths Across America's mission of Remember, Honor, Teach, is carried out in part by organizing wreath laying ceremonies each December at veterans’ cemeteries in all 50 states and beyond. With no government funding, the cost of programs is paid by individual wreaths sponsors, corporate donors and volunteer truckers.