The Civil Air Patrol’s Texoma Composite Squadron is looking for more sponsors to help honor our country's veterans during the Christmas holidays.
Since 2006, Civil Air Patrol (CAP) has partnered with Wreaths Across America (WAA), a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to remember and honor the sacrifices of all veterans and their families, to place evergreen wreaths on local veteran's graves in a ceremony held each December.
Working with CAP and other partners, WAA representatives place hundreds of thousands of wreaths on graves at several hundred cemeteries across the country including Arlington National Cemetery and at 24 American military cemeteries overseas.
All wreaths sponsored through the squadron will be placed on veteran's graves at Cedarlawn Memorial Park in Sherman, and the squadron's goal is to place a wreath on every grave.
Sponsorships are $15 per wreath and can be purchased in any quantity. Orders are being accepted through Wednesday, Nov. 21.
Order forms may be obtained from any squadron member or printed from the “Wreaths Across America 2012” pages on the squadron's website.
Anyone wishing to order by telephone or online using a credit card can do so by calling WAA at (877) 385-9504 or by visiting the Wreaths Across America website; in either case, be sure to specify the group ID number “TXCAP262” when ordering so the wreaths will be delivered to the correct location.
This year's wreath-laying ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday. This event is open to the public and everyone is invited to attend, especially local veterans and their families. For more information about the Texoma Composite Squadron, please call (903) 786-6227 or visit www.captexoma.org. For more information about Wreaths Across America, visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with more than 61,000 members nationwide, operating a fleet of 550 aircraft. CAP, in its Air Force auxiliary role, performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited by the AFRCC with saving an average of 80 lives annually.
Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and drug interdiction missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies.
Visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com or www.capvolunteernow.com for more information.
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