Dear Michael,

This Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), volunteers handed out and placed 105,000 flowers to honor those who have served our country.

While still fresh in our memories, here is a brief overview of what many of you helped accomplish over the Memorial Day Weekend.

On a very busy Memorial Day, CalFlowers made flowers available to be placed at every one of the 15,000 headstones at Section 60. Another 28,000 flowers were given to visitors at the Welcome Center. Family Pass Holders were handed an additional 12,000 roses by TD Bank associates.

The day before the ANC tributes began, Peraton employees placed a flower at every headstone at Alexandria National Cemetery [link]. At the T.A.P.S. convention, the Foundation presented the 400 bouquets donated by Holland America Flowers in California. These bouquets were given to the surviving families and children of warriors lost in action.

A Special Thanks

The Memorial Day Flowers Foundation is able to continue with its mission thanks to our incredible network of supporters and individual donors.

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Supporting California Growers

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Memorial Day Flowers Foundation Welcomes New Members to the Board of Directors

The last twelve months have been the most challenging since we started in 2011.  We understand that during these unprecedented times, it is important to adapt, and we made changes to our Memorial Day practices to ensure the safety of all participants.
Among the changes over the past year, the one we are happiest about is welcoming three new board members, whose combined experience will greatly aid our mission of honoring every hero with a flower.

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Plans for Memorial Day 2021

The Memorial Day Flowers Foundation plans to place flower tributes at Arlington National Cemetery in a safe and socially-distanced manner for Memorial Day in 2021. We encourage our network of volunteers, partners, and supporters to honor our fallen military and late veterans in their local communities with flowers.

Family Tribute Boxes

Our Family Tribute Boxes allow families and small groups to create their own Memorial Day tradition by placing flowers at veteran’s graves in their local cemeteries.
Choose one of these box sizes of farm-fresh roses for your Memorial Day tribute:

• 50 for individuals and couples
• 125 for a small family
• 250 for small groups and organizations

This is a wonderful way to spend time outside and teach your children patriotism and help us to bring back the original meaning of Memorial Day.

Retail Program

The Retail Program was designed for small, locally-owned businesses. Business owners order a flower kit with 125 roses, which they distribute to customers Memorial Day weekend. Their customers then place these roses on military gravesites or give them to veterans. Some businesses prefer to visit the cemetery to place flowers personally.

Volunteer Spotlight: Patti Plaza

I’ve been a supporter of the Memorial Day Flowers Foundation since the first year they launched. Every year I tell as many people as possible about them because the experience of laying flowers at the graves of soldiers laid to rest at the Arlington National Cemetery is unequaled. Each year we place flowers and say a prayer at the resting sites of hundreds of soldiers, as well as those of my stepdad, who was a World War II D-Day pilot. We also place flowers at the sites of fathers of friends who can’t be there in person. The Gold Star Family bouquets and the roses we receive at no cost are colorful and exceptionally beautiful. The organizers of the Memorial Day event in particular are incredibly dedicated and committed to making the experience of laying flowers a memorable one. They are fantastically well organized. They run an efficient system for distributing bucketsful of roses, and even during the pandemic seamlessly adjusted to make the process safe. The Memorial Day Flowers Foundation gives us an opportunity to recognize, thank and honor the men and women who gave their lives to protecting our great country. There can be no greater act of service than that. It’s an honor to participate and support the Memorial Day Flowers Foundation.

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