JAKE FEIL
Wreaths Across America
HAVEN, Kan. — Laurel Cemetery in Haven, Kansas will participate this year in the National Wreaths Across America Day for the very first time.
The cemetery will join more than 4,200 participating locations across the country to Remember, Honor and Teach on Saturday, December 14, 2024.
Wreaths Across America started as a simple gesture of thanks and grew into a national, yearlong movement of volunteers and communities coming together to remember our nation’s fallen military and to honor their service and sacrifice by placing live balsam wreaths on their headstones.
Laurel Cemetery will be placing 186 wreaths on veteran graves. The event will start at 11 a.m. with a short ceremony and then wreaths will be placed immediately after the ceremony.
The event coordinator, Jake Feil, said “this is our first year participating so we want to make it extra special. We have some exciting surprises scheduled.”