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WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA’S MOBILE EDUCATION EXHIBIT IS COMING TO SOUTH FLORIDA TO HONOR VETERANS AND SUPPORTERS Pro-sports community in Florida helps to honor local veterans, volunteers and WAA supporters in the community!
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reaths Across America (WAA) is proud our nation’s heroes as well as serving as an Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine to announce that its Mobile Education official ‘welcome home’ station for our nation’s businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission – Remember, Honor, Exhibit (MEE), will be makings stops Vietnam Veterans. in Florida to honor and welcome home our The Lighthouse Point Chapter Daughters Teach – is carried out in part each year by nations veterans. These stops will be the first of the American Revolution and the Florida coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in on the MEE’s 2022 tour before continuing to Panthers want to help raise awareness of December at Arlington, as well as thousands South Carolina and Georgia. Wreaths Across America and to show support of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in “The goal of the Wreaths Across America to all local veterans by inviting the community all 50 states and beyond. Mobile Education Exhibit is to bring the com- for a FREE tour of the WAA Mobile Education For more information or to sponsor a wreath munity together and teach patriotism while Exhibit and Vietnam Vet welcome home center please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. remembering the service and sacrifice of in Sunrise, FL, Saturday, February 12th. The our nation’s heroes,” said Karen Worcester, WAA MEE is free, open to the public, and will executive director, Wreaths Across America. be located at FLA LIVE Arena, 1 Panther Pkwy “However, over the last year, in light of the from 10 am - 1 pm. current health crisis, we feel this exhibit has The public tours for the MEE are free and taken on even more meaning by providing the open to the public with social distancing, opportunity for people to safely participate sanitation and COVID-19 safety procedures in something that is both educational and in place to protect the health of all visitors in inspiring while supporting and giving back to accordance with the CDCs recommendation the communities it visits.” for large gatherings stemming from concerns The MEE achieves this goal by bringing the surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. local community, veterans, active-duty military About Wreaths Across America and their families together through interactive Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonexhibits, short films, and shared stories. The profit organization founded to continue and exhibit serves as a mobile museum, educating expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at visitors about the service and sacrifice of
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