COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Governor Henry McMaster is proclaiming December as “Wreaths Across America Month” — recognizing a group that’s dedicated to honoring our Veterans throughout the country and across South Carolina.
Monday morning, Representatives Micah Caskey and Chris Wooten presented the organization’s local coordinator, Carol Davis, with the proclamation.
“It’s important for all of us to recognize and remember our Veterans and let them know that we care, and to remember those who have passed. This gives us an opportunity at all Veteran cemeteries and where Veterans are buried throughout SC to honor them. This proclamation is a sign that SC loves her Veterans,” says Davis.
On December 14th, over two million volunteers with the group will lay wreaths by the gravesites of Veterans across the U.S.
And here locally, on December 14th at noon, over 13,000 wreaths will be placed by the tombstones at Fort Jackson National Cemetery.
“And it’s important for us to come there. As individuals and families. And bring the children. We need to remember those that served, honor those that are serving now, and to teach our children that freedom is not free,” says Davis.
Each wreath is a $17 sponsorship through the organization. Representative Wooten says the local community here in the Midlands provides enough wreaths to cover every single gravesite at Fort Jackson National Cemetery.
“I’ve been apart of the “Wreaths Across America” in D.C. at Arlington, seeing the massive amounts of people show up to honor our Veterans. And to see that on a lower level, you don’t usually see that at a state level, to see how much South Carolinians care about their Veterans, and the fact that people show up to put out those 13,000 wreaths, and that’s across the state at other cemeteries as well, and so it’s an honor as an old Marine to see some folks that are really still…I say patriotic, but SC just loves their Veterans and it’s such an honor to be apart of that,” says Wooten.
If you’d like to make a donation to sponsor a wreath, visit Wreaths Across America here.
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