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Monday, December 22, 2014

A Christmas Tribute





Each December, Morrill Worcester, the founder of Wreaths Across America, places wreaths on graves at Arlington National Cemetery. In addition to Worcester's family members, thousands of volunteers come out to help Worcester in this sign of respect to those who have died for our country.
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To see a video of Morrill Worcester and his mission to decorate the graves of fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetary and throughout the country, CLICK HERE.  This simple man and his moving story reminds us of what we owe our military men and women and their families.   
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For the veterans in your family, I would like to wish them a Merry Christmas and express my gratitude for giving us a safe country to live in.  

Merry Christmas and Peace on Earth

 It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.     

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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