Bureaucrats tried to interfere with a significant memorial event held every year: the placing of wreaths at Arlington Nation Cemetery.  Thousands of volunteers go to more than 2,400 cemeteries across the country every year on November 19 to place wreaths on military graves in an event that began in 1992. The Worcester family, tree-farmers of Harrington, Vt., had extra wreaths that year and arranged to have them taken to Arlington and placed on graves that were receiving little, if any, attention.  A ceremony was held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and this continued for the next fifteen years.  A photo taken of the event in 2005 awakened the spirit of those across the country who also wanted to honor their fallen heroes.  Wreaths across America was born. By 2014, Wreaths across America volunteers were placing wreaths on 226,525 graves across the country. On November 16, the placing of wreaths in Arlington was arbitrarily...(Read Full Post)