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Wreaths Across America (WAA) will kick off on Monday, Dec. 8 with a State House wreath laying ceremonies in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The state of Illinois will receive its statehouse wreath at 11 a.m. at Howlett Building's Hall of Flags corridor. http://rose.rosec.googlepages.com/WAA_PRESS_RELEASE.pdf WAA ceremony at Camp Butler on Dec. 13 starting at 11 a.m. where seven ceremonial wreaths will be placed to remember those who gave their lives in service for our country. Specially made wreaths for Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant marines and POW/MIA will be placed on memorials during a ceremony on this date. Dec. 13 will mark the 17th anniversary of the Maine wreaths being donated to decorate the graves at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. and the third year of a national campaign dubbed Wreaths Across America that will bring the same remembrance wreaths to over 230 National and State Veterans cemeteries and monuments across the nation.

For more information:

Call 891-8719, or visit http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org

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