PHOTO GALLERY : Volunteers honor veterans with holiday wreaths at Sarasota National Cemetery
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By
Yaryna Klimchak
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| 5:00 a.m. December 16, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY : Volunteers honor veterans with holiday wreaths at Sarasota National Cemetery
Volunteers laid wreaths at the Sarasota National Cemetery.
A semi truck filled with over 5,000 wreaths pulls into the Sarasota National Cemetery.
Joanna Hernandez, Donna Hayes and Martha Townsend
Taylor Bear, 15, a student at Sarasota Military Academy puts a wreath on his grandfather’s grave.
Sue Snow came to see Jon Kangas’s grave, her brother.
Close to 60 Patriot Guard bikes escorted the semi truck with wreaths into the cemetery.
Mike Kane helps unload boxes of wreaths.
Maverick Johnson puts a wreath on Sergeant Denis V. Cooper’s grave, his father.
Kathleen Warblow puts a wreath on George Johnson’s grave, her father.
Aaliyah Johnson, 8, puts a wreath on her grandfather’s grave with her mother Heather.
All 5, 170 graves had wreathes on them.
Each grave in the cemetery had a wreath by the end of the morning.
Jim Dryer a.k.a Vinny, Terry Longpre and Gil Craig of the Patriot Guard
Cindy Eigenmann came to lay wreaths on her father’s and aunt’s graves.
Andre Alfaro and Dominic Bowman placed a wreath on Walter Sachse’s grave, their grandfather, a Vietnam War Veteran.
Volunteers unload 219 boxes filled with holiday wreaths.
Volunteers lay wreaths on veteran’s graves at Sarasota National Cemetery.
