{"id":6972,"date":"2017-12-24T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:36:30","slug":"waa-puts-wreaths-on-veterans-graves-at-two-placerville-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/12\/24\/waa-puts-wreaths-on-veterans-graves-at-two-placerville-cemeteries\/","title":{"rendered":"WAA puts Wreaths on Veteran&#8217;s Graves at two Placerville cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Anon]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1992 Wreaths Across America (WAA) began placing weaths in the older part of Arlington National Cemetery, these being donated by the founder of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 a picture of snowy graves at Arlington, each with a wreath and red ribbon, went viral. \u00a0Interest surged, and WAA has now expanded to more than 1,000 cemeteries where veterans are laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>This Congressionally sanctioned effort reached Placerville this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">Veteran graves at the Old City cemetery, and Uppertown cemetery were honored with a wreath:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><u><strong>John Brabrook, Uppertown cemetery;<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><u><strong>Stogdell Angley, Old City cemetery.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>As is done with each wreath laid by WAA, the name of the veteran is said aloud, along with a statement of gratitude for their service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>To volunteer for next year, or to ask questions, the local organizer can be contacted at\u00a0<a>wreaths@fastmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anon] In 1992 Wreaths Across America (WAA) began placing weaths in the older part of Arlington National Cemetery,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}