The National nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA) announced today that the Magnolia Cemetery on Desiard Street, Monroe, LA, will be joining in the mission to Remember, Honor, Teach, as an official location for 2023. This is the FIRST year that the cemetery will participate in this national program thanks to the Fort Miro Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
Wreaths Across America started as a simple gesture of thanks that has grown into a national, yearlong movement of dedicated volunteers and communities coming together to not only remember the nation’s fallen and honor their service, but to teach the next generation about the value of freedom. This year, there will be more than 3,700 participating locations placing veterans’ wreaths on National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023 – with more than two million volunteers coming together.
The goal for the Magnolia Cemetery is to raise enough funds to place 250 sponsored veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of all the local heroes laid to rest there, to ensure that the individuals who served to protect the freedoms of our country never be forgotten, and to bring the community together in patriotic commemoration.
Please help the Fort Miro Chapter, NSDAR honor and remember our veterans by sponsoring a wreath for $17 at https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/171164
A ceremony will be held at the Magnolia Cemetery on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 11:00 AM.
