YOUR HELP AND ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED
For the Flag retrieval of approximately 13,000 flags that were placed on the final resting place of our Veterans at the Middletown CT. State Veterans Cemetery for storage and future use is ON SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST starting at 9:00am.
Your help and assistance is needed to accomplish this so that we will be able to preserve these Flags for usage to Honor those who served and are no longer with us.
Youth groups are especially welcome to assist us in the retrieval of the flags.
Please pass along this request to friends, family, Youth Groups, and Organizations you belong to for them to help us .
In the past we have had a great turnout and hope this continues from the Community
ALSO, donations will be collected for Wreaths Across America Wreaths that will be placed in December. Last year we met our goal of Remembrance Wreaths that were available to be placed on the final resting place of those Veterans allowed to receive one.
The cost of purchasing a Wreath is $17.00 per Wreath. Donations collected will be used to purchase the buy two (2) and receive a third Wreath free.
You can click on the link below and you will be able to make a donation directly to make our goal. If unable to click the link, copy it and paste it into your browser and it will take you directly to the donation page for the Wreaths for the CT. Veterans Cemetery in Middletown located on Bow Lane. This is a direct link that will ensure your donation will go directly to the Middletown Veterans Cemetery or with your cell phone use the QR code.
https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/150231
| Check-out the Wreaths Across America Page that I Support! Wreaths Across America (“WAA”) coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies every December to “Remember, Honor, and Teach” about the sacrifices made by our veterans and their families. Please check out this page to learn how you can help by sponsoring Veterans Remembrance Wreaths or by joining us on December 14, 2024 at a participating location near you. #WreathsAcrossAmerica www.wreathsacrossamerica.org |
Thank you
I am not a veteran. I am a member of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary. But in 1991, personal loss brought me to a place I never left.
Over two decades later, that loss led me to the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut, where I took on the coordination of Wreaths Across America — which grew into the largest and fastest growing veterans program in the state. I didn’t do it for recognition. I did it for them.
In 2016 I founded the Connecticut Veterans Bulletin. Not because I served, but because I believe those who did deserve to be honored, connected, and kept alive.
Twenty-two veterans die by suicide every day. I knew about that number before it became a hashtag. I knew it personally, long before anyone was talking about it.
This publication exists because that number is unacceptable. Because every veteran in Connecticut deserves to know someone gives a damn.
That someone is me.
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