It is with great pleasure and gratitude that we thank everyone who has made our project “Wreaths across America” such a huge success.

This year on Dec. 14 at 12 noon we will be placing 955 remembrance wreaths in the veterans section of Woodland Cemetery. Other military areas will be remembered also. This has been made possible by donations from all over the Lawrence County area and Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and various other places. This would not have been possible with out the help of so many. Now we would like to extend this invitation to all to help us lay these wreaths and to join us for the ceremony.

I think you will enjoy the ceremony and will swell with pride, as we do, when you see the veterans who participate. We will be there no matter the weather as they were there to protect our country and all the freedoms we now take for granted sometimes. In closing there is a poem I would like to share with all. This is engraved on a plain stone at the foot of the hill as you start the climb to Arlington National Cemetery.

“It is the veteran not the the preacher who has given us freedom of religion It is the veteran not the reporter who has given us freedom of speech

It is the veteran not the poet who has given us freedom of speech

It is the veteran not the campus organizer who has given us the

freedom to assemble

It is the veteran not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial

It is the veteran not the politician who has given us the right to vote

It is the veteran who salutes the flag, and serves under the flag.”

 

Thank all of you again

 

Juanita Southers and

Linda Dalton