Kansas Veterans' Cemetery at Fort Dodge

by Gwen Seymour
(Fort Dodge, KS)

WAA 2006

Harrington, Maine – Wreaths Across America is coming to the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery at Fort Dodge on December 15, 2007 at 11:00 am.

The Civil Air Patrol, Great Plains Bison Squadron, has volunteered to conduct the Wreaths Across America ceremony for the second year at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery at Fort Dodge on December 15, 2007, starting at 11:00 am. 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 by representatives from each branch of service during the ceremony.

December 15 will mark the 16th anniversary of Maine wreaths being donated to decorate the graves at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, and the second 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.

All of these specially made wreaths are donated by Worcester Wreath Company in Harrington, Maine. The full story can be seen and heard online at the Wreaths Across America website below.

In addition to these ceremonial wreaths, U.S. Civil Air Patrol has joined with Wreaths Across America to promote sponsored wreaths from the general public that also will be laid on veterans graves across the country. If you would like to sponsor a wreath please call Gwen Seymour at (620) 338-8772 for more information.