Wreaths Across America’s Mobile Education 2024 National Tour Recap
2024年7月9日 - 4:13AM
Since January, the Wreaths Across America (WAA) Mobile Education
Exhibit (MEE) has completed 93 community events in ten states and
hosted over 9,000 visitors. As a Commemorative Partner of the
United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration the Ambassadors
traveling on the MEE have welcomed 877 Vietnam veterans and
consoled 186 surviving family members so far this year. WAA has
welcomed home nearly 10,000 Vietnam War-era veterans in total since
becoming a Commemorative Partner in 2012.
The mobile exhibit plans to stop in communities in fourteen
states over the next six months. This schedule and planned states
include:
July: Illinois, Iowa, and Maine
August: Florida and New York
September - October: Massachusetts, Maryland,
Delaware, and Virginia
November: Georgia, North and South
Carolina
December: Rhode Island and the annual escort to
Arlington, Va.
The WAA Mobile Education Exhibit serves as a mobile museum,
educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation’s
heroes and serving as an official ‘welcome home’ station for our
nation’s Vietnam-era veterans. MEE events are free and open to the
public. All community members, veterans and active-duty military
and their families are encouraged to take a tour and speak with WAA
Ambassadors and volunteers.
“The goal of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit
is to bring communities together and teach about the organization’s
mission while remembering the service and sacrifice of our nation’s
heroes,” said Trish Gardner, MEE Manager. “The first half of 2024
has seen an incredible outpouring of support for the year-round
mission and an eagerness for communities to find ways to get more
involved. We are looking forward to a busy and inspiring second
half of this year’s national tour.”
You can learn more about the mission in your community, sign up
to volunteer or sponsor a veteran’s wreath to support the local
effort anytime for $17 by visiting www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
Each sponsorship goes toward a live balsam wreath that will be
placed on the headstone of an American hero as we endeavor to honor
all veterans laid to rest on Saturday, December 14, 2024, as part
of National Wreaths Across America Day.
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About Wreaths Across AmericaWreaths 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 yearlong mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is
carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying
ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of
veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and
beyond.
WAA National Office:
Rachael Wilson, PR Coordinator
Wreaths Across America
rwilson@wreathsacrossamerica.org
(207) 230-4599
Please visit our Media Resources Page to download background,
photos, logos, or other items to help you file your story. Please
credit all imagery to WAA Staff. Additional press photos and video
can be available via email request at
rwilson@wreathsacrossamerica.org.
See local press contacts listed above by date for interviews, or
contact the national office for interviews with MEE Manager Trish
Gardner at tgardner@wreathsacrossamerica.org.
Rachael Wilson
Wreaths Across America
(207) 230-4599
rwilson@wreathsacrossamerica.org