May 2021 Gallup Journey Magazine

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Fundraising Effort Underway to Support Wreaths Across America 2021

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ocal volunteers are working hard to ensure that all veterans laid to rest at Gallup Cemeteries are honored next December on National Wreaths Across America Day. Now through November 31, 2021 any (2) $15 wreaths sponsored through the sponsorship groups listed below will be matched with 1 wreath from Wreaths Across America. On Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020 Gallup cemeteries joined with more than 2,550 participating Wreaths Across America locations across the country to simultaneously hold wreath directly, please visit www. laying ceremonies in support wreathsacrossamerica.org/ of the mission to Remember, NM0068 Honor, and Teach. In total To sponsor a $15 veteran’s 567 live, balsam fir veterans’ wreath for Hillcrest Cemetery wreaths were placed by 47 directly, please visit www. volunteers in Gallup cemeteries. wreathsacrossamerica.org/ The goal for next national NM0069 Wreaths Across America To sponsor a $15 veteran’s Day – Saturday Dec.18, 2021 wreath for Sunset Memorial – is to place a wreath at the Cemetery directly, please visit headstone of every one of the www.wreathsacrossamerica. over 1,300 veterans buried in org/NM0067 Gallup’s cemeteries and spread To sponsor a $15 patriotism and commemoration veteran’s wreath for Gallup for the ultimate sacrifices they State Veterans Cemetery made for our country. directly, please visit www. “Each wreath sponsorship is a wreathsacrossamerica.org/ meaningful gift of remembrance NM0066 from an appreciative American National Wreaths Across who knows what it means to serve and sacrifice for the freedoms we all enjoy,” said Karen Worcester, executive director of Wreaths Across America. “We Doug Mason are so grateful to the B.A. in Music community of Gallup, Education New Mexico for participating in our mission to Remember, Honor and Teach.” To sponsor a $15 veteran’s wreath for Gallup City Cemetery (No Text)

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America Day is a free, nonpolitical event, open to all people. Wreaths Across America is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The organization’s mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at more than 2,000 veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. Media contact: Janice Bradley 505/879/8900, janiceb43@

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