Wreaths Across America

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was spotted volunteering at Arlington National Cemetery Saturday, honoring the nation’s veterans.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reversed a decision by the Arlington National Cemetery to cancel its annual Wreaths Across America event.

Wreaths Across America announced Monday that the Arlington National Cemetery will not allow for wreath placing this December.

Volunteers laid hundreds of thousands of wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery and nearly 1,600 additional locations across the United States this weekend to honor those who served. 

Karen Worcester, executive director of Wreaths Across America, told Breitbart News of her charity’s mission to honor fallen veterans across America by laying wreaths across military servicepersons’ graves. She joined Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on a recent edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Despite the bone-chilling weather and a steady icy rain, Karen and Morrill Worcester joined a crowd at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial on Saturday to remember those who died in the 2001 terror attack and to lay wreaths on the graves of men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice throughout the nation’s history.

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.

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.

The executive director of Wreaths Across America, Karen Worcester, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss National Wreaths Across America Day, which is December 17, and to explain how people may get involved to help the deeply patriotic organization. She also thanked Breitbart News readers and listeners for being “instrumental” in helping the group meet its goal of placing a wreath on every headstone at Arlington National Cemetery last year.

ARLINGTON, VA — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), retired commander at the fabled Navy SEAL Team Six and an Iraq War veteran, was among the thousands of volunteers at the Arlington National Cemetery placing commemorative garlands on veteran headstones for Wreaths Across America Day.

None of the headstones at the Arlington National Cemetery will have to forego wreaths this holiday season thanks, in large part, to the Breitbart News Daily audience.

In less than 24 hours, Breitbart News readers purchased all 3,500 of the limited edition “Merry Christmas” coffee tumblers and raised over $14,000 for Wreaths Across America, a charity whose mission is to coordinate “wreath laying ceremonies on a specified Saturday in December at Arlington, as well as veterans cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.”

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, the non-profit that has set a goal of placing a remembrance wreath at each of the nearly 230,000 headstones at Arlington Nation Cemetery, is still facing a shortfall this holiday season of about 18,000 commemorative garlands.

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.