Honoring veterans with wreaths

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Sisters veterans laid wreaths on veterans' graves at Camp Polk Cemetery as part of the national Wreaths Across America program.

Members of Sisters Veterans including American Legion Post 86, Band of Brothers - Sisters Chapter, and VFW Post 8138, along with members from the Camp Polk Pioneer Cemetery Preservation Committee, met on Friday, December 13, to decorate the gravesites of the 70 veterans buried at Camp Polk.

Wreaths Across America has the simple mission of: Remember. Honor. Teach. The goal is to place a veteran's wreath on every veteran grave marker. Wreaths Across America is committed to teaching all generations about the value of their freedoms, and the importance of honoring those who sacrificed so much to protect those freedoms.

While Americans have Veterans Day in the fall and Memorial Day in the spring, servicemen and women sacrifice their time and safety every single day of the year, to preserve our freedoms. In many American homes, every day there is an empty seat for one who is serving or one who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country and never came home.

That is why the Wreaths Across America mission to Remember, Honor, and Teach lasts all year long, far beyond the single day in December when we coordinate wreath-laying ceremonies. All throughout the year, Wreaths Across America works in a number of ways to show veterans and their families that America will never forget.