Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery

VA, UNITED STATES

12.13.2014

Video by Mary Cochran 

Arlington National Cemetery   

National Wreaths Across America Day Event at Arlington National Cemetery -
December 13, 2014 more than 40,000 volunteers placed 230,000 wreaths at gravesites throughout the cemetery commemorating Arlington’s 150th anniversary. This is WAA’s 23rd year laying wreaths at our nation’s cemetery, and it marks the largest number of wreaths ever sponsored and delivered — including the laying of the two-millionth wreath nationwide, to honor Pvt. William Christman, the first solider to be buried at Arlington. A convoy of more than 25 vehicles left Harrington, Maine on Sunday, Dec. 7, to begin the six-day journey to Arlington National Cemetery. It included tractor-trailers, donated by trucking companies and driven by volunteer drivers, as well as buses, motorcycles and cars transporting veterans, families of fallen soldiers and supporters. About Wreaths Across America -
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission Remember, Honor, Teach is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at hundreds of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. For more information, please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
For more information about this event, please contact Amber Caron at [phone] or [e-mail], or contact Arlington National Cemetery Public Affairs at [phone].

• Date Taken: 12.13.2014
• Date Posted: 12.13.2014 21:15
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 381587
• VIRIN: 121314-A-ZZ999-001
• Filename: DOD_102147287
• Length: 00:01:08
• Location: VA, US