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By DON BRUNELL
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Despite coronavirus, wreaths placed across America

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Last updated 12/24/2020 at 12:19pm



Christmas is an especially difficult time for anyone grieving for lost loved ones. Try adding a crippling killer virus into that mix. That is the tragic reality of 2020.

Even though the traditional ceremonies attended by thousands went virtual this year, more than 1.7 million holiday wreaths were placed against grave markers of fallen service men and women.

Normally, the fallen are remembered on Memorial Day, but thanks to a Maine family and over hundreds of thousand donors and volunteers, on December 19 those wreaths were laid on the tombstones of our fallen soldiers, sailors and airmen/wo...



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