Overview
- Organizers report about 3 million wreaths being placed at roughly 5,600 cemeteries and memorials across the United States.
- Arlington National Cemetery invites volunteers to begin placing wreaths at 8 a.m. Saturday, with online registration encouraged.
- Army veteran and NFI Industries driver Jason Westcott is leading a convoy from Columbia Falls, Maine, as part of a 67-truck delivery to Arlington.
- On Friday, ceremonies marked the observance at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial and the World War II Memorial.
- The remembrance began in 1992 when Morrill Worcester sent 5,000 surplus wreaths from Maine to Arlington, growing into today’s national effort.