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“All ages, all races — the only requirement to be in this group is you have to have served or still serve as an active duty Special Forces soldier. If you haven’t done that, then you can’t do this. You can’t be in this club,” he said.

The horse-drawn caisson appeared over the horizon, carrying 34-year-old Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin towards his final resting place at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Over 1.5 million wreaths will be placed at veterans’ resting sites this weekend across 1,400 cemeteries by Wreaths Across America, a charitable organization founded by Karen Worcester.

Executive Director of Wreaths Across America Karen Worcester joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss this year’s wreath-laying ceremony to be held at Arlington National Cemetery on December 16th, 2017.

Monday, President Donald Trump will commemorate Memorial Day with remarks at a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

Karen Worcester, executive director of Wreaths Across America, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday, “There are more than 1.2 million wreaths en route to locations where veterans are buried all over the country with incredible teams of drivers getting these wreaths out to be placed by more than a million volunteers.”

The executive director of Wreaths Across America, Karen Worcester, told Breitbart News Daily Sirius XM host Matt Boyle on Tuesday, “The cutoff for Arlington is December 14. We’re just a few thousand short” to cover every headstone at Arlington National Cemetery with a fresh evergreen wreath on December 17, which is National Wreaths Across America Day.

As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day, we pause in thanks for the sacrifices made by millions of Americans who died while fighting to preserve freedom.

As the nation prepares to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day 2016, POLITICO takes a look back at a year inside our nation’s cemetery.

There’s not a lot of talking at Arlington. Even chatterboxes find themselves hushed by the endless rows of white headstones, solemn signposts of heroism, sacrifice, and duty. Yet still, Arlington speaks to me. It is there, for example, that I learned about both justice and the rule of law.

Arlington National Cemetery historian Chris Warren joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday with a timely review of Arlington’s history for Memorial Day.

With Memorial Day comes the touching annual tradition of soldiers placing hundreds of thousands of American flags on tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery.

Wreaths Across America, a non-profit responsible for placing commemorative garlands at the 230,000 headstones in Arlington National Cemetery, was able to reduce its wreaths deficit by more than half in one day, to 7,500, thanks in part to donations from Breitbart News Daily listeners.

Wreaths Across America, a non-profit group that for the last 23 years has been placing wreaths on the graves of our nation’s fallen warriors without any government assistance, is thousands short of its goal of placing one commemorative garland at each of the nearly 230,000 headstones at the Arlington National Cemetery, due to a lack of funding this holiday season.

ARLINGTON, Virginia– This year’s Memorial Day in Washington, DC was marked by warm temperatures and a cloudless sky. Thousands of Americans flocked to Arlington National Cemetery to pay their respects to the nearly 400,000 servicemen and women buried here.