14 DECEMBER 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: MIKE ROWLEY, from Des Moines, wearing the uniform of the Revolutionary War Continental Army, holds an American flag before volunteers placed Christmas wreaths on veterans' headstones. Volunteers working with Wreaths Across America placed Christmas wreaths on the headstones of more than 600 US military veterans in Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines. The cemetery, one of the first in Des Moines, has the graves of veterans going back to the War of 1812. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ