14 DECEMBER 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: Volunteers during the Pledge of Allegiance before they went out to lay Christmas wreaths on the veterans' graves in Woodland Cemetery. 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