National nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA) announced today that the Blanco Historic Cemetery has once again joined in the effort to support the mission to Remember, Honor, Teach, as an official location for 2020.

This is the fourth year that the cemetery will participate in this national event.

Wreaths Across America started as a simple gesture of thanks that has grown into a national movement of dedicated volunteers and communities coming together to not only remember the nation’s fallen and honor their service, but to teach the next generation about the sacrifices made for us to live freely.

This year, there will be more than 2,100 participating locations placing wreaths on National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020 – with more than two million volunteers coming together.

The goal for the Blanco Historic Cemetery is to raise enough funds to place veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of all the local heroes laid to rest there, as well as St. Mary’s, Twin Sisters, McKinney Loop and Mt. Horeb to ensure that the individuals who served to protect the freedoms of our country never be forgotten and to bring the community together in patriotic commemoration.

“We are forever grateful for the thousands of supporters who dedicate their time and effort to fulfilling our mission on a local level,” said Karen Worcester, executive director, Wreaths Across America. “These individuals and their communities know the value of remembering the fallen, honoring those who currently serve and teaching the next generation about the sacrifices made for our freedom every day, and without their continued support, Wreaths Across America would not exist.”

Find out more or buy a wreath go to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/txbhch

National Wreaths Across America Day is a free, non-political, community event open to all people.

Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

For more information, to sponsor wreaths or to sign up to volunteer, please visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org.