MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 9, 2024
Media Contact: Mike Crowe, Director of Public Service
mcrowe@wilmingtonoh.org
937-382-6509
Sugar Grove Cemetery Continues as an Official Location for the 2024 National
Wreaths Across America Day
LOCATION- Wilmington, OH
Sugar Grove Cemetery is, once again, an official location for 2024 Wreaths Across America Day joining in the mission to Remember, Honor, Teach. This is Sugar Grove’s second year participating in the national program. The public is invited to attend the Wreath Across America Ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, at 9:00am at Sugar Grove Cemetery, 297 W Truesdell Street, Wilmington, OH 45177. Attendees are encouraged to remain on site after the ceremony to lay wreaths on veteran graves.
Wreaths Across America started as a simple gesture of thanks that has grown into a national, yearlong movement of dedicated volunteers and communities coming together to not only remember the nation’s fallen and honor their service, but to teach the next generation about the value of freedom. This year, there will be more than 4,500 participating locations placing veterans’ wreaths on National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 – with more than three million volunteers coming together.
Sugar Grove Cemetery set the goal to raise enough funds to place over 1800 sponsored veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of all the local heroes laid to rest in Sugar Grove. Thanks to individual sponsors and The American Legion Post 49, this goal has been met.
The wreath laying ceremony brings the community together to ensure that the individuals who served to protect the freedoms of our country are never forgotten. Sugar Grove Cemetery is grateful for the many supporters who dedicate their time, energy and resources to fulfill this mission. The Wilmington
community knows the value of remembering the fallen, honoring those who currently serve, and teaching the next generation about the sacrifices made for freedom every day. Thanks to the community’s support, Sugar Grove Cemetery can continue the Wreaths Across America program each year.
Those interested in volunteering for Wreaths Across America or sponsoring a wreath for Sugar Grove Cemetery, are invited to visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/oh0384 to learn more.
About Wreaths Across America Wreaths 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.
RELEASED BY
Mike Crowe
Director of Public Service
City of Wilmington