Monthly Archives: December 2023

Remember, Honor, Teach: Together, We Made a Difference

An item from the Wreaths Across America organization.


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On behalf of the Wreaths Across America organization and our family of volunteers and supporters across the country, I want to personally thank YOU for your support of the mission to Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve, and Teach the next generation the value of freedom.

During this year’s National Wreaths Across America observance, more than three million dedicated volunteers – a third of whom are children – placed THREE million veterans’ wreaths at 4,225 participating locations across the country. That is more than 500 new locations added to the program since last year! Specifically, at Arlington National Cemetery where this all began, 260,000 veterans’ wreaths were placed by more than 30,000 volunteers on a truly gorgeous day.

As I think of those numbers, each of those headstones representing a LIFE of service, and each of those volunteers saying each servicemember’s name out loud and sharing a small gesture of gratitude for the freedoms Americans enjoy, I am immensely humbled. I am also truly overwhelmed with pride for the people of this great nation where so many individuals and communities can come together in unity and support for those who have protected our freedom. And most important to me, so many children were taken by the hand and introduced to these men and women and taught about the cost of freedom.

I will say it again: THANK YOU. Thank you for your volunteerism, your sponsorships, and your help in sharing the mission all year long!

Thank you most of all for taking the time during this busy season to join us in letting veterans and military families know that their service and sacrifice are both seen and appreciated and that they are not alone in their loss.

Remember. Honor. Teach.

With gratitude,

Karen Worcester

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Wreaths Across America Radio: Listen Live

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Wreaths Across America Radio will be broadcasting LIVE from the Vietnam War 50th Commemoration’s A Celebration of Character & Courage at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, January 13th. The event will thank, honor, and remember Vietnam veterans and their families. Tune in for exclusive interviews and event coverage, or register to attend the event in person below.

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Shop challenge coins, clothing, ornaments, and more featuring Wreaths Across America’s 2023 theme, “Serve and Succeed.”

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Salute! December 2023

A newsletter from Veterans Affairs Canada.


December 2023

The latest issue of Salute! has been released. View the latest issue of Salute! online.

Let us know what you think about Salute! by emailing us.

 

Sincerely,

Salute! Team

Veterans Affairs Canada


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Stalemate: How the First World War reached a four-year impasse

An item from the Legion Magazine.


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Stalemate: How the First World War reached a four-year impasse

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Red piping or blue adorn cages surrounding elm saplings at seemingly random points alongside roadways around the town of Ieper in western Belgium.

A centennial project of the In Flanders Fields Museum, they trace the near-encirclement of the town and delineate the furthest point of advance by invading German forces (red) and the corresponding Allied (blue) front lines through five major battles around what was then known, and is forever remembered, as Ypres.

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Painting the Battle of Ortona

STORY BY PAIGE JASMINE GILMAR

“The price of Peace, borne by the brave—

Is priceless…”

So goes part of the final stanza of George Elliott Clarke’s “At Ortona: An oratorio,” a poetic memorial of the blood, guts and glory of the Second World War’s Battle of Ortona. While lauded by CBC war correspondents as an example of Canadian heroism in the 1940s, the battle was largely forgotten.

The fight to push Nazi forces from the Italian town in December 1943 left more than 500 dead and nearly 2,000 more casualties, and featured dramatic house-to-house urban combat. It was Canada’s first stand-alone victory of the war. But as its 80th anniversary nears, Ortona remains for many people an obscure moment in Canadian history.

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