National tradition comes to Morgan Hill as volunteers place 309 wreaths By Marty Cheek As a sheet of fog embraced Morgan Hill’s Mount Hope Cemetery, a group of volunteers laid holiday wreaths on the graves of military veterans to honor them and their...
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National tradition comes to Morgan Hill as volunteers place 309 wreaths By Marty Cheek As a sheet of fog embraced Morgan Hill’s Mount Hope Cemetery, a group of volunteers laid holiday wreaths on the graves of military veterans to honor them and their families for their service. Among them Saturday Dec. 13 was local councilmember Larry Carr who participated in this year’s Wreaths Across America event which is held at more than 1,000 cemeteries across the United States. “I didn’t know what to expect, and I was just overwhelmed by the number of people who turned out and volunteered to take a moment to lay a wreath on a veteran’s grave-site,” he said. “It was a cold, misty morning and people took the time to be there. It was really heart-warming.” In Morgan Hill, 309 wreaths were placed on the cemetery’s graves and two were placed on the downtown Veterans Memorial. More than 1,000 wreaths were placed on veterans’ graves at Gavilan Hills and St. Mary’s cemeteries in Gilroy that same morning
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