Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery - Nashville
Contact Information
Lead Squadron or Group: Patriot Guard Riders - Tennessee
Location Leader: Annette Robeck
Contact Number: 615-974-3046
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Staging for Middle TN Veteran's Cemetery, McCrory Lane, Nashville
Loveless Cafe Hwy 100 @ 0930, KSU at 1025
Ride Captain: Kenny Breeding and Toni Albani
All military, and other groups, Boy Scouts, JROTC, etc will be going straight to the cemetery.
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Press Release For Immediate Release
December 14, 2007
Harrington, Maine – Wreaths Across America coming to Nashville, TN on December 15, 2007.
The Patriot Guard Riders of Tennessee has volunteered to conduct the WAA ceremony this year at the Middle Tennessee Veteran’s Cemetery, on McCrory Lane in Nashville on December 15, 2007 stating at 11:00 am CST where seven ceremonial wreaths will be placed to remember those who gave their lives in service for our country. Specially made wreaths for Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and POW/MIA will be placed on memorials during a ceremony on this date.
December 15 will mark the 16th anniversary of Maine wreaths being donated to decorate the graves at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, and the second year of a national campaign dubbed Wreaths Across America that will bring the same remembrance wreaths to over 230 National and State Veterans cemeteries and monuments across the nation.
All of these specially made wreaths are donated by Worcester Wreath Company in Harrington, Maine. The full story can be seen and heard on line at the below Wreaths Across America Website
In addition to these ceremonial wreaths U.S. Civil Air Patrol has joined with Wreaths Across America to promote sponsored wreaths from the general public that also will be laid on Veterans graves across the country.
Participating in the ceremonies this year will be the American Legion Riders from Post 82, 88 and 13, Rolling Thunder Chapter 1, VFW, DAV, JROTC from local High Schools in Davidson, Williamson, Cheatham, and Dickson, Counties, the Boy Scouts of American and the Girl Scouts of America, the Republican Women of Williamson County. There will be guest speakers present also. Military representatives will be present to lay the wreath for each branch of service, also a former POW will be present at each location to lay the POW/MIA wreath.
For immediate Release:
Annette Robeck
TN State Captain
Patriot Guard Riders
(615) 974-3046
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