ChristmasWreaths
09 DECEMBER 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: Master Sgt DAVID MATTESON leads members of the Civil Air Patrol through the National Cemetery in Phoenix to lay Christmas wreaths on veterans' graves. Several hundred volunteers and veterans gathered at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix Saturday to lay Christmas wreaths on headstones, a tradition started by Wreaths Across America. Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman, Morrill Worcester, in 1992. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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- ChristmasWreaths023.jpg
- Copyright
- © Jack Kurtz
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- 4459x2973 / 7.3MB
- Contained in galleries
- Phoenix (all), Phoenix 2011
