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National Nonprofit Kicks off Campaign in May to Help Supporters Distribute One Million Thank You Cards as Part of Military Appreciation Month COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This May, as part of Military Appreciation Month, Wreaths Across America (WAA) is challenging its supporters to shake a hand and offer thanks to more than one million veterans and members of the active military. WAA is a nonprofit organization best known for its annual wreath-laying...
Recipients Celebrate Brave U.S. Citizens with Special Ceremony ARLINGTON, Va., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Our nation's greatest war heroes - Medal of Honor recipients - will personally present awards to four unsung citizen heroes who've saved lives in extraordinary circumstances, during a special ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Approximately 20 Medal of Honor recipients are expected to attend the ceremony. The recipients will first commemorate Medal of...
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week 126 trucks left Harrington, Maine carrying special deliveries of handmade wreaths as a part of Wreaths Across America. They traveled across the nation to honor our fallen soldiers and assure that they are remembered during this holiday season. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100129/ATALOGO) Volunteers met the wreath-filled trucks to participate in ceremonies and help lay over 610,000 wreaths. 67 trucking...
Guards at Arlington National Cemetery put essay contest winners at ease as they marched with the children to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Delray Beach, Fla. (PRWEB) July 26, 2012 Four students from the Children of America Educational Childcare & Academy in Crofton, Md., recently experienced the high honor of laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Students were chosen to participate in the ceremony in Washington, D.C., based on essays they wrote that addressed what...
HERNDON, Va., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, July 9, 2012, members of the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET), the international association of lawn care and landscape professionals, will work to preserve the landscape at Arlington National Cemetery through the 16th( )annual Renewal & Remembrance beautification project. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/PH25719 ) Each year, Renewal & Remembrance draws hundreds of landscape and lawn care...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AITHERAS, LLC, a certified small business, is proud to announce its successful completion of a project which provided record scanning and documentation support to Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). In 2010, Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) identified a collection of burial records needing to be converted and indexed into an electronic document. The records were of various sizes, conditions and ages, with some documenting Civil War...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Women in the Military: At the Crossroads, a two-day biennial What: examination of -- Women's experiences in combat -- Sexual assault prevention and response -- Military moms and dual career couples -- Disparities in US servicewomen's health research --International Issues for servicewomen in India, Norway, Australia, and The United...
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the United States' most hallowed cemetery was rocked with scandal in 2010, Secretary of the Army John McHugh established a hierarchy to make sure incidents like graves being mismarked and unmarked, burial urns being unearthed and dumped out, and millions of dollars being mismanaged never happens again. A key player in that hierarchy, Kathryn Condon, pledged to The American Legion today that she'll do everything in her power to...
Report Addresses Current Process and Technology Challenges, Recommends Solutions to Improve Cemetery Operations HERNDON, Va., Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced today that it had delivered a final report to Army Secretary John McHugh based on its pro bono assessment of the processes and technology challenges at Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). NVTC's assessment, which contains recommendations to improve Cemetery operations,...
HARRINGTON, Maine, Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 1992 5,000 Christmas wreaths from the State of Maine were placed on the headstones of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery, donated by Worcester Wreath Company. Nineteen years later in 2010 the annual wreath-laying tradition has become a national day of remembrance, with over 200,000 wreaths being placed and 500+ participating locations around the Country. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101119/DC05454) Today...
