Beaufort County Veterans Affairs and Wreaths Across America Beaufort Host National Mobile Education Exhibit Again This Year

WAA MEE

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 10:17 AM


Beaufort County Veterans Affairs in partnership with Wreaths Across America Beaufort is proud to announce the return of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE) National Tour. This is the second year the mobile exhibit has stopped in Beaufort County.

The Mobile Education Exhibit will be in Beaufort Monday, November 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The exhibit will be located in the front of the Beaufort Town Center parking lot, 2015 Boundary Street, Beaufort.

It is free and open to the public. Learn more about the exhibit here.

All veterans, active-duty military, their families, and the local community members are invited and encouraged to visit, take a tour and speak with WAA representatives and volunteers. They can also share more about the national nonprofit, and the work its volunteers do to support our heroes and their communities year-round.

Members of the media, dignitaries, veterans and other interested groups are urged to come, ask questions, share stories and experience this one-of-a-kind exhibit.

Wreaths Across America Beaufort
Wreaths Across America Beaufort is in its 17th year of making sure all 26,000 veteran heroes buried in Beaufort National Cemetery have a Remembrance Wreath on their headstones.

Remembrance Wreaths can be sponsored wreath for $17 at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/GA0175P.

This year's ceremony will be held Saturday, December 16, beginning at noon, at Beaufort National Cemetery.

About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

In 2022, the organization placed more than 2.7 million sponsored veterans’ wreaths at more than 3,700 participating locations nationwide.

All Wreaths Across America Day events are, non-political/religious events, open to all people.


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