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Good weather brought out many volunteer hands and families to the Wreaths Across America event at the WNY National Cemetery in Pembroke on Saturday afternoon. Wreaths Across America is held at over 4,000 cemeteries across the country.
After a brief ceremony, the largest crowd to attend the event in its third year, placed wreaths on all of the graves of veterans who served our country.
The Pembroke H.S. Veteran’s Outreach Club sold wreaths over the past few months, and for every sale, $5 was donated to the WNY National Cemetery Memorial Council. The club raised $3,000. The Memorial Council supports the cemetery for items the Department of Veteran Affairs cannot support, like golf carts, plants, shrubs and flowers to beautify the location during the spring, summer and fall months.
This is amazing 🙏🇺🇸 ♥️😘🙏🇺🇸
So many soldiers served in the military who are not eligible for the Pembrook VA burial. It is very discriminating to those soldiers who worked hard to be a qualified United States soldier. What a shame one politician made some soldiers ineligible when they served their Country.