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Wreaths Across America Announces Top
Sponsorship Groups from Connecticut
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Local volunteer efforts honored more than
37,300 Connecticut
servicemembers laid to rest with a veteran’s wreath last December.
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Connecticut – May 1, 2024 – Each year, national nonprofit
Wreaths Across America (WAA) recognizes top sponsorship
groups for excellence in serving their local community while
helping to share the yearlong mission to Remember, Honor,
Teach. Among the thousands of supportive groups honoring
locally interred veterans through wreath sponsorships, WAA
recently announced that special recognition has been given
to five sponsorship groups for their contribution as the
2023 top groups in Connecticut. |
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The five top groups of 2023 in Connecticut include: CT DVA
Board of Trustees (CT0164); American Legion Post 133
(CT0001P); John Maciolek, American Legion Aux Unit 154
(CT0079P); Quiet Corner Veterans Support Coalition
(CT0149P); and WAA of New Britain - DAV Chapter 8 (CT0011).
These five groups combined helped honor over 11,700 veterans
in total, contributing to the over 37,300 servicemembers
honored throughout the state of Connecticut on National
Wreaths Across America Day 2023. |
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Since its founding in 2007, WAA has collaborated with
hundreds of like-minded organizations, volunteers, and civic
groups nationwide to remember and honor our nation’s
veterans and active-duty military throughout the year as
part of its Group
Sponsorship Program.
As a 3-for-2 sponsorship group, a third wreath is placed for
every two sponsored. Through WAA’s national $5 back program,
sponsorships received ‘do good twice’ as $5 of each $17
wreath sponsorship made to a participating group goes back
to them to use for their local program and initiatives. |
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“I have long said it would be disingenuous for us as an
organization whose mission is to Remember the fallen, Honor
those who serve, and Teach the next generation the value of
freedom, if we do not support other like-minded programs
doing just that in their communities,” said WAA Executive
Director Karen Worcester. “The Sponsorship Group Program is
a great way to support the programs doing good work i |
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You can help support efforts by sponsoring a veteran’s
wreath for
placement on National Wreaths Across America Day 2024 –
Saturday,
December 14. Each $17 sponsorship supports WAA’s year-round
mission, and the programs designed to share it in
communities
nationwide. In addition, a live balsam wreath will be placed on the
headstone of an American hero.
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To sponsor a wreath for a servicemember laid to rest in the
state of
Connecticut, visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org and
use the Location
and Group Search to directly support a registered group. |
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About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the
annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
begun in 1992. The organization’s yearlong mission –
Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by
coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at
Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries
and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
For more information or to sponsor a wreath please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
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