The Orange Cemetery has been selected for the Civil Air Patrol’s Wreaths Across America program for this year in New Haven County.
The CT Minuteman Composite Squadron, CAP based at Tweed New Haven Airport, in association with the Orange Cemetery Association, the New Haven Rotary and American Legion Orange Post 127, selected the cemetery for the veterans wreath-laying ceremony. Wreaths will be placed on veteran grave sites in the cemetery on Dec. 14.
If you have a veteran in the cemetery and would like to make sure your veteran’s grave has a wreath placed on it, contact first Lt. Jerald Barber, CAP at 203-671-7848. A $15 donation is requested.
Wreaths may also be picked up at the Orange Cemetery across from Mary L Tracy School on Dec. 14 if you wish to pick one up for another location. Let Barber know in advance so that there will be enough wreaths available to accommodate your recognition request.
The ceremony is a December CAP holiday tradition observed by all 52 CAP wings and abroad. Thousands of CAP officers and cadets participate in Wreaths Across America observances to honor the nation’s fallen. They present the colors, deliver orations and place veterans’ wreaths on headstones at national and local cemeteries and war memorials.
Last year, more than 1.5 million veterans’ wreaths were sponsored by the public for placement on veterans’ graves at 1,433 ceremonies in all 50 states and abroad.